While I enjoy blogging about a variety of topics from current events to literary possibilities of videogames, I am particularly intrigued by how people interpret reality, specifically how the language we use reveals and conceals the reality about which we speak. To speak technically, I am interested in analyzing our hermeneutic frameworks.
A purpose I'll be returning to again and again in the blog is the analysis and exploration of how language opens, reveals, shapes, creates, limits, and conceals our understanding of reality (even the word reality does these things). Readers of Postmodern Papist will know I have already begun this task, though it remains still in the embryonic stages.
This is a task I believe to be very important, for how we interpret reality, how we understand truth, is intimately tied to how we act. I hope to put into practice what in philosophy is called hermeneutics, a philosophy that could be considered postmodern--hence the cheesy alliteration of my blog title. It is a philosophy that is neither a realism nor an idealism, neither an objectivism nor a subjectivism, neither outside these nor a synthesis of these.
Hermeneutics? It is a matter of interpretation...
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