For a Hermeneutic of Interviewing. Halakha and Aggada in the Social Sciences
The article For a Hermeneutic of Interviewing concerns the question of scientific truth as produced by the bijective relationship between ethnographic interviews and the doctrines of the social sciences. The text argues from an original bibliography, including Hans-Georg Gadamer’s work on hermeneutics and works based on semiotics, and it re-establishes the forgotten connection between sociology and language sciences. The cited interview appears as a unique fact of language inasmuch as it is the result of three interconnected “meanings”: that of the interviewees, that of the authors of a learned text and finally, that of the readers, positioned here as true actors in a process of alethurgy. Starting from an original comparison of the interview and the Jewish Aggada, another comparison is developed between the doctrines of the social sciences and Halakha, and their relationship becomes an example of a process of alethurgy.