present, there are still many common themes, historical stages, and enduring questions that we may critically examine. For our purposes there are six distinct hermeneutical trends that, while overlapping in many areas, are worth examining in detail: romantic, phenomenological and existential, philosophical, critical, structural, and poststructural (deconstruction). In addition to studying these major hermeneutical movements, we will also examine what we consider to be some of the most influential
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