
What Might We Know
Novel 2 of 4 in the series Scrapbooks of the Soul
Scrapbooks of the Soul is a series of four novels asking big questions about being alive. The stories are about hermeneutic habits, our habits of interpretation. These novels tell how we humans interpret ourselves, others, and all of life.
The word hermeneutic is from the name Hermes in Greek mythology. Hermes had the complex task of delivering the messages of the gods to mortals, which meant he first had to interpret for himself what the gods were saying, and then translate the message in such a way that mortals could understand.
The four novels show that humans have the same complex task as Hermes. We are hermeneuts whether or not we want to be, for in the ordinariness of life, we always and everywhere infer, deduce, discern, and decide, what our experiences "mean" or if they mean nothing, which is itself an interpretation.
Our interpretations form who we are, and vice versa, who we are greatly influences our interpretations. What we see is largely part of how we see. Indeed, life is a scrapbook of our interpretations and the interpretations of others which affect us.
- Forfatter
- Marilyn Hammond
- ISBN
- 9781957176109
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 331 gram
- Utgivelsesdato
- 18.1.2022
- Forlag
- Empress Publications
- Antall sider
- 244
