Hermeneutics and Reception Aesthetic - YMM03HRA

• Title: Hermeneutics and Reception Aesthetic
• Guaranteed by: Programme Electronic Culture and Semiotics (24-KEKS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: can be fulfilled in the future
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Benedetta Zaccarello, Ph.D. et Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Felix Borecký, Ph.D. (20.02.2020)

The goal of the course is to outline main issues of modern hermeneutics of H.-G. Gadamer and P. Ricœur. Key texts are as follow: Gadamer’s major work Truth &Method (Wahrheit und Methode) and Ricœur’s writings concerning hermenetutics from his Essays in Hermeneutics I (The Conflict of Interpretation) and Essays in Hermeneutics II (From Text to Action). Additionally, the focus will be held on aesthetic topics from The Relevance of the Beautiful, The Rule of Metaphor and Time and Narrative in order to consider the decisive effect of hermeneutics on reception aesthetics.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Felix Borecký, Ph.D. (22.02.2020)

Weekly schedule:

 

1. Ideal of Objectivity vs. Hermeneutical Circle.

2. “Bildung”, Sensus Communis, Judgment, Taste.

3. Elements of a Theory of Hermeneutic Experience: (I) Prejudices, (II) Authority.

4. Elements of a Theory of Hermeneutic Experience: (III) Temporal Distance, (IV) Principle

   of  History of Effect (Wirkungsgeschichte).

5. Natural and Human Sciences. The Problem of Methodology of the Human Sciences.

6. Language and Hermeneutics. Art.

7. Ricœur’s Interconnection of Hermeneutics and Structuralism.

8. To Explain vs. To Understand.

9. Discourse. Speaking and Writing.

10. Metaphor and Symbol.

11. Time and Narrative.

12. Reception Aesthetics.

 

   Literature:

Gadamer, H.-G., Truth and Method, transl. J. Weinsheimer, D. G. Marshall, Bloomsbury Academic, London-New York 2004.

––––––, “The Problem of Historical Consciousness,” in “H.-G. Gadamer,” special issue, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 5:1 (1975), pp. 8–52.

––––––, The Relevance of the Beautiful and other Essays, transl. N. Walker, Cambridge University Press, Cambrigde 1987.

 

Ricœur, P., Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning, Texas Christian

University Press, Texas 1976.

––––––, The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling, Critical

Inquiry 5, 1978, č. 1, Special Issue on Metaphor, s. 143–159.

––––––,  The Conflict of Interpretation: Essays in Hermeneutics, edited by John Hide.

Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin, Robert Sweeney et al., Northwestern

University Press, Evanston 1974.

––––––, The Rule of Metaphor, Routledge Classics, London 1978.

 

Grondin, J., Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics, Yale University Press, London 1994.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Felix Borecký, Ph.D. (22.02.2020)

•1. Attendance: 75%

 

•2. An essay in English of 4-5 pages

–On one subject from the course.

–Standard pages: 12 pt., 1,5 line spacing, 1800 signs.

–Handing in:  to email [e-mail] until May 3rd 2020.

–File has to be entitled „Name.Introduction“; e.g. „Smith.Introduction“

 

•3. Final exam

–It is necessary to study the mandatory literature which will be recommended throughout the course.