“THE RISE OF HERMENEUTICS" BY WILHELM DILTHEY AND HOW CAN THIS BE RELATED TO THE RISE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Abstract

In recent years, scholars have been studying the limitations of interpretation more extensively. Some argue that these limitations can be overcome. Different forms of criticism, such as media archaeology, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, surface reading,
and quantitative formalism, have been examined. Advancements in fields like Digital Humanities, which involve techniques like "distant reading" and machine reading experiments, as well as critical assessments of historicism and discussions involving linguistic and discourse analysis, provide significant alternatives to the traditional approach of interpreting individual texts and objects. This paper aims to outline digital hermeneutics, the intersection of hermeneutics and digital technology, specifically the digital tools in hermeneutics. The aim is to draw attention to hermeneutics and to pay attention to the hermeneutical endeavors of Wilhelm Dilthey.