Course: Interpretation and criticism

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Course title Interpretation and criticism
Course code KFHS/K515
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
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) How we understand interpretation and criticism. Preliminary definitions, introduction to hermeneutical and critical methods 2) The origin of hermeneutics in ancient Greece, in the Alexandria Museum, near Augustine (Plato, Augustine) 3) Hermeneutics as a method (Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Baden neo-Kantians) 4) Hermeneutical philosophy as an ontology (Heidegger, Gadamer) 5) Transcendental hermeneutics and hermeneutics of symbols and texts - (Apel, Ricoeur) 6) Critical hermeneutics (Habermas) 7) Kant's concept of criticism 8) Marx's concept of criticism 9) Critical rationalism - logic of scientific research and democratic criticism (Popper) 10) Criticism in critical theory (Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas, Honneth) 11) Criticism and language. Pragmatism (Peirce, Wittgenstein) 12) Literary and philosophical criticism, deconstruction (Eco, Rorty, Derrida) 13) Summary: Interpretation and criticism. Interweaving, discussion and controversy.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Introduction, practice and mastery of hermeneutical and critical methods used in philosophy and social sciences from antiquity to the present. Special attention will be paid to theories of interpretation as a method, philosophy and criticism and criticism in the Kantian, Marxian, pragmatic and literary conceptions.
Knowledge of basic interpretive and critical methods and the ability to use them in reading philosophical and social science texts and in writing seminar and diploma theses.
Prerequisites
The subject of Idea of University

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
1) At least 70% participation in the seminar 2) paper in a seminar or seminar work 3) Colloquium
Recommended literature
  • H. G. Gadamer. Pravda a metoda. Praha, 2010.
  • Habermas. Strukturální proměna veřejnosti. Praha, 2000.
  • Horkheimer, Adorno. Dialektika osvícenství. Praha, 2009.
  • K. O. Apel. Komunikativní společenství jako transcendentální předpoklad sociálních věd. Praha, 2003.
  • Kant. Co je osvícenství? in Studie k dějinám a politice. Praha, 2013.
  • Marx. Odcizení a emancipace. Praha, 1967.
  • Popper. Otevřená společnost a její nepřátelé I. Praha, 1994.
  • U. Eco. Meze interpretace. Praha, 2004.


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