“The strength of philosophical hermeneutics is, as it is with any philosophical theory, simultaneously somehow its weakness.”—Reiner Wiehl
“The expansion of the hermeneutical perspective to include all forms of knowledge and experience stems from the realization that epistemologically the interpretation of texts does not differ from other forms of knowledge and, in particular, from the knowledge that the natural sciences give us.”—Charles Larmore
“Nothing hides the fact of a problem in common better than two similar ways of approaching it.”—Michel Foucault
The Paul Robeson section near the end of Part 3 of this book is a compelling feat of playing with narrative time.
Simple words, but they took my breath away. This sentence comes at the end of a paragraph, and you can just hear the hope dying away, like falling off a cliff or getting hit by a train.