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.