 In accord with a common account of the modern historical origins of hermeneutics, recognizably philosophical contributions to hermeneutics originate with Friedrich  Schleiermacher.[3]  Closely associated with German romanticism, Schleiermacher developed his hermeneutics in the first decades of the nineteenth century. He proposes a universal hermeneutics that pertains to all linguistic experience, and not just to the interpretative concerns of specific disciplines (Scholtz 2015, 68). Schleiermacher characterizes hermeneutics as the art of interpretation, maintaining that this art is called for not simply to avoid misunderstandings in regard to otherwise readily intelligible discourses. Rather, the art of interpretation is necessary for discourses, paradigmatically written texts, in regard to which our interpretive experience begins in misunderstanding (Schleiermacher, “Outline,” §§ 15–16). Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics is multifaceted but keyed to the idea that the success of understanding depends on the successful interpretation of two sides of a discourse, the ‘grammatical’ and ‘psychological’ (Schleiermacher, “Outline,” §§ 5–6). By the ‘grammatical’ side, he means the contributions to the meaning of the discourse dependent on the general structure of the language it uses. By the ‘psychological’ side, he has in view the contributions to the meaning of the discourse dependent on the individual author’s or creator’s mind. Whereas the ‘grammatical’ side of a discourse is a matter of general linguistic structures, the ‘psychological’ side finds expression in linguistic forms that would traditionally be associated with style.