HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATION OF HERMENEUTICS

In this article, it is aimed to describe the history of hermeneutics briefly and to find out the funcitons of it throught the history, it is tried to reveal historical turning points of it at the base of historical period and continuity. Each usage style of hermeneutics is not inconsequent with other ways of usage and not unrelated with features of period which introduced it. In this work, it is tried to execute hermeneutics with the characteristics has gained from the period of Greek god Hermes to nowadays. It is tried to determine it’s basic borders and examine it’s different usage style as the allegoric interpretation way of Middle Age, whole techniques and ways which put across texts, methodology of human sciences, the existing way of existence, an experience which claims actuality in the philosophy by gaining universal quality. Todays, to understand hermeneutics examined by almost every dicipline, necessity of a historical work about hermeneutics gains importance. This work reaches it’s aim when it gains historical perspective about hermeneutics.