Hermeneutics of suspicion
Reading texts with a skeptic lense in order to expose their hidden meaning.
Paul Ricoeur's masters of suspicion
The Style of interpretation aimed at unmasking how consious thought is shaped by hidden deceptive forces
Three masters
- karl marx (economy) - Economic structures and class interests dictate human consiousness and societal values
- Friedrich Nietzsche (The will to power) - conventional morality is a product of rensent and underlying power to will.
- Sigmund Freud (The Unconscious)- The conscious thought is constantly subverted and driven by repressed desires, trauma, and unconscious conflicts.
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