CJBC159 Philosophical hermeneutics and the art of literary interpretation II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2006
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Miroslav Mikulášek, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
Thu 13:20–14:55 A47
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The presentation of literary hermeneutics will develop from the problematic of the word, the work (text, discourse as a "spiritual cosmos", universal "trope of spirit" of its creator, organon of "understanding of the mode of being", monadic "substrate of habitualities", spiritual "monad", "mandala" as an "archetype of wholeness") to the problematic of the "form", of the internal and external form of the literary work, further to the searching of the "soul" of the work (and its "meaning" emanating from within) and to the questions of methodological complementarities of literary hermeneutics as such: Word = a tool for thinking, its exterior designation and expression The word (as language, utterance) is regarded as a form of existence, manifestation of the spirit, its logical order (Hegel); Word = a sign (signum), a symbol but also a "verbum interius" ("verbum cordis"), a magical word, a myth , an epiphany (the "word-epiphany" became "body", to create "laws of moral order); Literary Work = a written testimony of the human existence (W. Dilthey: Entstehung der Hermeneutik, 1900), a text (in the concept of structural aesthetics, "source of information"), "world of text" (in its hermeneutical concept) = "map of the world" (in the text, P. Ricoeur): "world of the text" = "virtual reality ", "fiction", offering an extract of the understanding of being bringing "messages" that contain a " challenge/ appeal" for men; Literary Work = a spiritual cosmos (spiritual micro-cosmos) "verbal cosmos"; if the work is seen as a "sign of wholeness", it is a sign of the "spiritual life" of its very creator. Criterion of the "meaning" of a literary work (M. Merleau-Ponty) - discovering of the "hidden meaning" of the work / artefact/ literary process - hermeneutical circle
Syllabus
  • The presentation of literary hermeneutics will develop from the problematic of the word, the work (text, discourse as a "spiritual cosmos", universal "trope of spirit" of its creator, organon of "understanding of the mode of being", monadic "substrate of habitualities", spiritual "monad", "mandala" as an "archetype of wholeness") to the problematic of the "form", of the internal and external form of the literary work, further to the searching of the "soul" of the work (and its "meaning" emanating from within) and to the questions of methodological complementarities of literary hermeneutics as such: Word = a tool for thinking, its exterior designation and expression The word (as language, utterance) is regarded as a form of existence, manifestation of the spirit, its logical order (Hegel); Word = a sign (signum), a symbol but also a "verbum interius" ("verbum cordis"), a magical word, a myth , an epiphany (the "word-epiphany" became "body", to create "laws of moral order); Literary Work = a written testimony of the human existence (W. Dilthey: Entstehung der Hermeneutik, 1900), a text (in the concept of structural aesthetics, "source of information"), "world of text" (in its hermeneutical concept) = "map of the world" (in the text, P. Ricoeur): "world of the text" = "virtual reality ", "fiction", offering an extract of the understanding of being bringing "messages" that contain a " challenge/ appeal" for men; Literary Work = a spiritual cosmos (spiritual micro-cosmos) "verbal cosmos"; if the work is seen as a "sign of wholeness", it is a sign of the "spiritual life" of its very creator. Criterion of the "meaning" of a literary work (M. Merleau-Ponty) - discovering of the "hidden meaning" of the work / artefact/ literary process - hermeneutical circle
Literature
  • SZONDI, Peter. Úvod do literární hermeneutiky :studijní vydání přednášek. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2003, 184 s. ISBN 80-7294-094-5. info
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010.
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