Word: hermenaut
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What is a hermenaut? The word itself is a combination of hermeneutics, which might be defined as “the art or 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...
...publication schedule is irregular and it started out as nothing more than a set of stapled photocopies, but Hermenaut is now in its 10th year. It has developed something of a loyal following, and it has been described as “well-written,” “funny and smart,” “refreshing” and “clever and cutting” in various places like Salon.com, the Voice Literary Supplement, Lingua Franca, Wired and Sassy. Yes, Sassy...
...magazine actually happens to deserve all of those adjectives. Hermenaut recently released its newest effort, Issue #16, entitled “The Stockholm Syndrome Issue.” The Stockholm Syndrome is named for a hostage situation in a Swedish 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...