Course: Interpretation and Critique

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Course title Interpretation and Critique
Course code KFHS/K755
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
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 hermeneutic and critical methods 2) The emergence of hermeneutics in ancient Greece, in the Alexandrian Museum, with Augustine (Plato, Augustine) 3) Hermeneutics as a method (Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Baden neo-Kantians) 4) Hermeneutic philosophy as ontology (Heidegger, Gadamer) 5) Transcendental hermeneutics, critique of methodological solipsism and discursive ethics (Apel) 6) Hermeneutics of symbols, suspicion and texts. Hermeneutic Criticism (Ricoeur) 7) Critical, Emancipatory Hermeneutics and Theory of Communicative Action (Habermas) 8) Kant's Concept of Criticism 9) Marx's Concept of Criticism 10) Critical Rationalism - Logic of Scientific Inquiry and Democratic Criticism (Popper) 11) Criticism in Critical Theory (Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas, Honneth) 12) Criticism and Language. Pragmatism (Peirce, Wittgenstein) 13) Literary and Philosophical Criticism, Deconstruction (Eco, Rorty, Derrida) 14) Summary and Evaluation: Interpretation and Criticism. Interweaving Discussion and Polemic. Colloquium

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to introduce and explain important concepts of interpretation and criticism in the history of philosophical thought. The aim is to explain and definition of the notion in hermeneutical thought and criticism in thought of Kant, Marx, in critical rationalism and in critical theory.
Based on lectures and seminars, students will understand these individual concepts, be able to compare and contrast them, evaluate strong and convincing and weak and problematic arguments for or against them. Through oral and written papers, students will learn to express and defend individual philosophical positions or, conversely, criticize and refute them.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
1. Minimum 70% attendance 2. Reading of at least two studies or books on the subject 3. Seminar paper or seminar paper 4. Colloquium on seminar texts
Recommended literature
  • de Boer, Karin; Sonderegger, Ruth. Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy. London. 2012.
  • Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Pravda a metoda I. Praha. 2010.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. Problémy legitimity v pozdním kapitalismu. Praha. 2000.
  • Habermas, Jürgen. Strukturální proměna veřejnosti. Praha. 2000.
  • Heidegger, Martin. Bytí a čas. Praha. 1996.
  • Horkheimer, Max; Adorno, Theodor. Dialektika osvícenství. Praha. 2009.
  • Kant, Imanuel. Odpověď na otázku: Co je osvícenství? in Studie k dějinám a politice. Praha. 2013.
  • Marx, Karl. Emancipace a odcizení. Praha. 1967.
  • Ricoeur, Paul. Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences. 2016.


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