Course: Hermeneutics

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Course title Hermeneutics
Course code KFHS/B119
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šimsa Martin, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) What is hermeneutics? Definition of hermeneutics, philosophical hermeneutics and hermeneutic philosophy. Basic hermeneutic concepts: understanding, meaning, interpretation, hermeneutic circle, criticism 2) Brief history of hermeneutics in ancient, medieval philosophy. Alexandrian School, Augustine, Four-Sense Hermeneutics, Hermeneutics in the Renaissance and the Reformation, in Philology and Theology, Luther, Melanchton, Spinoza, Chladenius 3) Romantic hermeneutics, German historical school, hermeneutics as a method, differentiation of humanities and natural sciences: Schleiermacher, Leopold von Ranke, Dilthey 4) Early Heidegger hermeneutics: Hermeneutics of facticity, hermeneutics and phenomenology 5) Hermeneutics of the meaning of being: Being and time 6) Gadamer's hermeneutics of art and history: Truth and method I 7) Gadamer's hermeneutic theory: History of understanding, speech and rhetoric, Truth and method II 8) Ricoeur's hermeneutics between psychoanalysis and structuralism: Essay on Freud, Conflict of interpretations 9) Ricoeur's narrative hermeneutics of time, memory and narration 10) Habermas: Hermeneutics of the logic of social sciences, critical hermeneutics 11) Habermas: Hermeneutics in the theory of communicative behavior and in discursive ethics and the theory of democracy 12) Transcendental hermeneutics and pragmatics of Karl Otto Apel in the theory of science and in discursive ethics 13) Poststructural hermeneutics by Umberto Ec, Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
Introduction to the history and basic issues of hermeneutics in Greek, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophy. Definition of hermeneutics in relation to theology, philology, law and literature. Hermeneutics as a method, ontology and critique. Ability to ask questions about the advantages and disadvantages of individual hermeneutics.
Knowledge of the basic features of the discussed hermeneutics. Orientation in their place and mutual relationship. Knowledge of ways of their study. Awareness of their advantages and disadvantages.
Prerequisites
Passing the subject the Idea of university

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
1. At least 70% active participation 2. Reading of minimal 2 titles in hermeneutics 3. Seminar work or Paper in the seminar 4. Oral exam
Recommended literature
  • Apel, K.-O. Komunikativní společenství jako transcendentální předpoklad sociálních věd. Praha. 2003.
  • H. G. Gadamer. Pravda a metoda. Praha, 2009.
  • Habermas, J. Zur Logik der Sozialwissenschaften. Frankfurt a. M., 1995.
  • Heidegger, M. Bytí a čas. Praha, 1996.
  • J. Grondin. Úvod do hermeneutiky. Praha, 1997.
  • M. Heidegger. Fenomenologické interpretace k Aristotelovi. Praha, 1997.
  • P. Ricoeur. Život, pravda, symbol. Praha, 1993.
  • Rorty, Apel, Habermas. Za zrkadlom moderny. Bratislava, 1991.
  • U. Eco. Meze interpretace. Praha, 2004.


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