Thesis (M.A.) - Cairo University -Faculty of Arts - Department of English

Philosophical hermeneuticists has taken hermeneutics in an ontological turn that has proven ineffective in critiquing the hermeneutic methodological tradition and appreciating its potential to reinvigorate hermeneutics by anchoring it to application. Through a comparative, pluralist and eclectic reading of selected works by Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834){u2013}a German theologian, philologist and philosopher{u2014}and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010){u2013}an Egyptian literary scholar and philosopher, the proposed study proposes a reformulation of philological hermeneutics that departs from the rich philological practices of the two hermeneuticists, This is conducted through focusing on three critical tropes: 2linguistic analysis,3 2context,3 and 2dialectic3. Based on this hermeneutic, eclectic reading of Schleiermacher and Abu Zayd{u2019}s texts, the study, accordingly, presents a new, reformulated and intercultural 2hermeneutic circle3 that may rival other established reading practices in its pluralism

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