The dichotomy referred to seems artificial, and too exclusive. As Heidegger has pointed out very convincingly, all interpretation is circular, but a hermeneutic circle isn't a vicious one. There is no "God's truth" or "real" meaning of the text, if that means a singular, univocal reading that would get it all "right". . A "hocus pocus" interpretation shoehorns a text into a structure that cannot accomodate it. But there are a lot of meaningful interpretations that are neither.
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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