Thank you Jeffrey for a well-sourced discussion of the use of language in one of its most hermeneutic contexts. For me, it is Ricoeur's 'The Conflict of Interpretations' that remains the most salient collection of thoughts on this wider topic. My role as a thinker includes asking questions no one wants to ask, saying things no one wants to hear, and making more clear ideas and experiences that in fact everyone understands either tacitly or semi-consciously. These and 'corrupting youth', of course!
Thank you Jeffrey for a well-sourced discussion of the use of language in one of its most hermeneutic contexts. For me, it is Ricoeur's 'The Conflict of Interpretations' that remains the most salient collection of thoughts on this wider topic. My role as a thinker includes asking questions no one wants to ask, saying things no one wants to hear, and making more clear ideas and experiences that in fact everyone understands either tacitly or semi-consciously. These and 'corrupting youth', of course!