The hermeneutics of suspicion is a term coined by Paul Ricoeur __________ . (a) to designate the…
Ricoeur’s suspicion invokes Marx, Nietzsche and Freud and seeks latent meaning behind deceptive appearances, supporting (c) and (d). A global conspiracy account and a…
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The hermeneutics of suspicion is a term coined by Paul Ricoeur __________ .
(a) to designate the postcolonial tendency to see theory and related reading manoeuvres
as a global conspiracy.
(b) to describe interpretive bids that challenge and seek to overcome compartmentalized
cultural experiences.
(c) who, following Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, held that textual appearances are deceptive
and texts do not gracefully relinquish their meanings.
(d) to describe a mode of interpretation that adopts a distrustful attitude towards texts in
order to elicit otherwise inaccessible meanings or implications.
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Correct answer C
Ricoeur’s suspicion invokes Marx, Nietzsche and Freud and seeks latent meaning behind deceptive appearances, supporting (c) and (d). A global conspiracy account and a generic overcoming of compartmentalised experience do not define the term.
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