By Peter Szondi
Peter Szondi is commonly considered as being one of the so much extraordinary postwar literary critics. this primary English variation of 1 of his such a lot lucid and fascinating sequence of lectures, translated through Martha Woodmansee and with a foreword through Joel Weinsheimer, opens up his paintings in hermeneutics to English-speaking readers. Peter Szondi right here strains the ancient improvement of hermeneutics via exam of the paintings of German Enlightenment theorists, which yields beneficial insights into the "material conception" of interpretation.
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2 Page 2 Crucial in ancient medicine was the belief in the power of the spoken word, of discourse, as a cure for or palliative to disease. The highly verbal nature of healing activities served to cast patients into roles of central significance, making them participants in the cultural, religious, and philosophical milieu of their respective societies. Even those who could not be cured or who were cast out of their communities because of their diseases played important, well-defined parts in the cosmic dramas by which those communities lived and through which their members found meaning in their lives.
Nonetheless, these concerns are central to healing, and physicians cannot ignore them in their daily commerce with patients where they serve to complicate the narrower questions physicians do ask"What is the matter with the ankle? What should one do for the ankle? "40by reminding them, in Moore's words that "at its foundation, the profession rests on a knowledge and understanding of human nature. With its affections, convictions, whims, and sentiments, human nature is anything but a science. "41 Even more importantly, the broader questions posed by the experience of illness confront physicians with the limitations and uncertainties of the human condition in general and force them to consider medicine not as fact and experimental verification of fact, but as probability and possibility laced with a certain but unpredictable amount of uncertainty.
In health," writes Cassell, we know we are alive by our connectedness to the world. by numerous physical phenomenatouch, sight, balance, smell, taste, hearingand also by our interest in things and in others, by our feelings for people, by what we do and how necessary we are, by our place in the social scheme. In illness, however slight, some of these contacts are lost. 51 When patients enter a hospital or a care facility, most remaining connections are broken immediately. The highly technical nature of scientific medicine serves to further the process by distancing them from their physicians, who become obscured behind a screen of tests and technical apparatus.