FF:CJBC159 Philosophical hermeneutics and - Course Information

CJBC159 Philosophical hermeneutics and the art of literary interpretation II

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.

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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

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