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...science of interpretation” or “the search for meaning,” and astronaut. You know what an astronaut is. And this gives us a working definition of a hermenaut: “a traveler in search of signification,” according to Joshua Glenn. Glenn is the founder of Hermenaut magazine, a bewildering and brilliant journal of philosophical inquiry and cultural criticism published out of Boston’s very own Jamaica Plain...
...bank in which the hostages became great friends with their hostage-taker. But in the hands of Hermenaut, the Stockholm Syndrome becomes a larger statement of how “it’s possible to internalize the values of someone who is oppressing you,” as Glenn puts it. This issue features essays related to that theme, and includes an essay on neototalitarianism, an account of an attempt to “save” a waitress from the machine of oppression that is Hooters restaurant, a manifesto for a new way to approach cultural criticism (entitled...
...propagation of intellectually challenging arguments that actually mean something in real life. Some might think that only intellectual elites would understand and enjoy the material in the magazine, but back when Hermenaut was still a collection of stapled photocopies, some of its biggest fans were teenage girls. Glenn attributes this to their appreciation for how Hermenaut, even in its earliest days, was saying something smart and interesting and different. So who, exactly, reads and loves Hermenaut? And who should? It’s much more fun than an academic journal and way deeper than some of the stuff published...
...been approached by the magazine’s editorial staff. “We don’t ask for new writers to approach us, but if we see people who seems interesting, we’ll go after them and ask them to write,” says Glenn. “We’ve kind of had to train them to write differently. We do a lot of work with our writers, developing and editing their pieces...
Hermenaut has to pay special attention to instructing new contributing writers in part because of the somewhat unconventional niche it occupies. “Hermenaut is supposed to make you feel a little uncomfortable,” says Glenn. “It’s supposed to push you out and pull you in.” The middle ground Hermenaut is seeking lies between the domain of “the serious scholar and the freelance hack journalist.” If Hermenaut is proud of its unusual approach to philosophical and cultural discourse, that stems partly from...