Hans-Georg Gadamer, in his 1960
magnum opus Truth and Method (German:
Wahrheit und Methode), offers perhaps the most systematic survey of
hermeneutics in the 20th century. The title of the work indicates his dialogue between claims of "truth" on the one hand and the processes of "method" on the other—in brief, the
hermeneutics of faith and the
hermeneutics of suspicion. Gadamer suggests that, ultimately, one must decide between one and the other when reading.
Ruthellen Josselson similarly writes, "Ricoeur distinguishes between two forms of hermeneutics: a hermeneutics of faith which aims to restore meaning to a text and a hermeneutics of suspicion which attempts to decode meanings that are disguised." According to literary theorist
Rita Felski, hermeneutics of suspicion is "a distinctively modern style of interpretation that circumvents obvious or self-evident meanings in order to draw out less visible and less flattering truths." Felski further writes: Felski also notes that the "'hermeneutics of suspicion' is the name usually bestowed on [a] technique of reading texts against the grain and between the lines, of cataloging their omissions and laying bare their contradictions, of rubbing in what they fail to know and cannot represent." In that sense, it can be seen as being related to
ideology critique. Felski has built on Ricœur's theory in outlining her influential theory of
postcritique. ==See also==