Hermeneutic Thought and the Shape of Understanding

Heitor Matallo Junior (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5813-3 (ISBN)

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Interpretation is not a passive act—it is the medium through which the world becomes thinkable, shaped, and shared. This book journeys through domains where interpretation is not optional but essential—from medieval alchemy and predictive processing to Riemannian geometry, dark matter, and the living ecologies of soil and water. Rather than advancing a single, fixed theory of hermeneutics, it performs hermeneutics in motion—showing how meaning unfolds differently across time, space, and scale.An invitation to rethink how we understand understanding itself, this is a work for readers who seek to cross boundaries: between disciplines, between worlds, and between the visible and the hidden.

Heitor Matallo Junior is a former professor of sociology and senior United Nations officer, where he led global programs on knowledge governance and sustainability under the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. He began his academic career studying physics at the University of Brasília, Brazil before earning a degree in social sciences and completing graduate studies in logic and philosophy of science at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil.His interdisciplinary background spans epistemology, environmental studies, and the history of science. He is the author of Constructing Knowledge: Scientific Methodology, 24th ed. and co-author of Social Sciences, Complexity, and the Environment, both published in Portuguese in Brazil. Since retiring from the UN in 2017, he has focused on philosophical research, with special emphasis on hermeneutics, interpretive theory, and the epistemic foundations of scientific knowledge.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-5813-X / 103645813X
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5813-3 / 9781036458133
Zustand	Neuware