Steven Willett wrote that
> Excessive hermeneutics can take away the mystery that entices us into
> the work on our own.
I would replace "excessive" with "insufficient," since both the
interpretative moves that Willett deplores -- arch-historicist
esotericization on the one hand, Enlightenment/Romantic aestheticism on the
other -- are inconsistent with hermeneutics, at least in Gadamer's sense.
But then so, arguably, is "mystery"! JDF
James Dougal Fleming, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English,
Simon Fraser University,
(604) 291-4713
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