The hermeneutical structure of living systems and technical devices

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https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-733

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hermeneutical circle, living systems and artifacts, Wolfgang Iser, recursive and cybernetics spiral

Abstract

The hermeneutic has a long tradition in attempting to decode texts to make them understandable. From Schleiermacher, the hermeneutic tasks are related to the attempt of describing the way in which the alien, the bizarre, is translated into something familiar to the form of the hermeneutical circle. The interpretation, in this way, is shown as the translation of one thing in another. In this article, this model of interpretation and translation in the form of the hermeneutical circle will be applied in a different sphere of texts: living systems and artifacts. For that reason, we will follow the work of Wolfgang Iser and use the notion of recursive spiral together with the cybernetics spiral as genders derived off the hermeneutical circle capables of explaining the interpretative dynamics of men in control of the environment.

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Author Biography

Leandro Catoggio, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Profesor en Filosofía y doctorando en Filosofía por la UNLa (Argentina). Es docente de las cátedras de Filosofía Moderna y Gnoseología. Se especializa en hermenéutica contemporánea y filosofía moderna.

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Published

2011-12-30

How to Cite

Catoggio, L. (2011). The hermeneutical structure of living systems and technical devices. Revista Iberoamericana De Ciencia, Tecnología Y Sociedad - CTS (Ibero-American Science, Technology and Society Journal), 7(19), 123–129. https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-733

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Vol. 7 No. 19 (2011)

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