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Hermeneutics according to Benedito Nunes

Abstract

Throughout sixty-plus years of teaching and writing, Benedito Nunes has split his activities by multiple fields and sub-fields of knowledge, embarking on a constant spatial and intellectual movement of which the nodes were, notably, Philosophy and Literature. The continued duality manifests itself strongly on the way Benedito perceives knowledge–broadly understood. And, likewise, by the dialectics he puts forward in order to connect Philosophy and Literature under the umbrella of Hermeneutics– a distinctive kind of Hermeneutics, first associated with Hartmann and then Heidegger, thus reflecting upon an equally distinctive practice of criticism and teaching.