ESB022 Aesthetics and Hermeneutics

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Magdalena Konečná, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Timetable
Wed 8:20–9:55 A49
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
At the end of this course students should be able to understand and explain hermeneutical methods of interpretation and use them in classical and modern texts.
Syllabus
  • Syllabus:
  • Aesthetics and hermeneutics, their relationship Hermeneutics and text – J. M. Chladenius, F. Meier – the rules-definition: the language knowledge, integrity of the text, mens auctori
  • F. D. E. Schleiermacher – two types of interpretation – psychological and technical
  • H.-G. Gadamer – the dialogue with the text, P. Ricoeur – the world of the text and the world of the reader
  • The reception-aesthetisc (H.-R. Jauss – “the horizon of expectation”) and the response-aesthetics (W. Iser – the implied reader)
  • P. Szondi – Literary hermeneutics
  • Painting, theater and the film
  • Texts for interpretation: Franz Kafka: Vor dem Gesetz; Heinrich Böll: Dr. Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen
Literature
  • HROCH, Jaroslav. Filosofická hermeneutika v dějinách a v současnosti. 2. vyd. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 2003, 204 s. ISBN 8086251187. URL info
  • SZONDI, Peter. Úvod do literární hermeneutiky :studijní vydání přednášek. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2003, 184 s. ISBN 80-7294-094-5. info
  • GRONDIN, Jean. Úvod do hermeneutiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1997, 247 s. ISBN 80-86005-43-7. info
  • WERFEL, Franz. Ne vrah, zavražděný je vinen a jiné prózy. 1. vyd. Praha: Odeon, 1990, 489 s. info
  • KAFKA, Franz. Povídky. Translated by Vladimír Kafka. Vydání třetí. Praha: Odeon, 1990, 257 stran. ISBN 8020701788. info
  • BÖLL, Heinrich. Chléb mladých let. Edited by Vladimír Kafka, Translated by Bohumil Černík. 1. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1959, 307 s. URL info
Assessment methods
Type of education, objectives:
lectures, class discussion, reading, active participation in seminars, the close seminary work
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Spring 2013.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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