Understanding and interpretation. Introduction into hermeneutical philosophy 08-KUDU-MA-UIN
1:Why should we understand anything at all?
2:Philosophy, humanities and hermeneutics
3:History of hermeneutics: from Schleiermacher to Vattimo
4:The task of hermeneutics: understanding contemporary culture
5:Nietzsche: from facts to interpretations
6:Heidegger: understanding being and technics
7:Habermas: understanding contemporary society
8:Gadamer: understanding culture
9:Vattimo: weak thought and hermeneutical ontology
10:Winograd, Flores: understanding computers
11:Hermeneutics and science
12-14:Hermeneutics and media
15. Future of hermeneutics
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K_W01 theoretical concepcions of culture which could be uses in interdisciplinary perspective
K_U01 integrating, critical interpreting and creatively using theories and research approaches proper to cultural studies in non-standard professional situations
K_K02 demonstrating activity and iniciative in solving problems steming from the changes in contemporary culture
Assessment criteria
Oral exam/written exam.
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None.
Bibliography
1. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and method / transl. rev. by Joel Weinsheimer, London [u.a.] : Continuum, 2011. (fragments).
2. The Nietzsche reader, Ansell-Pearson, Keith (ed.), Oxford ; Blackwell ; 2006. (fragments)
3. Heidegger, Martin, The question concerning technology and other essays, New York u.a. ; Harper Torchbooks ; 1977. (fragments)
4.Habermas, Jürgen, The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society / Jürgen Habermas. Transl. by Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence, Cambridge : Polity Press, 2010. (fragments)
5. Vattimo, Gianni, The end of modernity nihilism and hermeneutics in post-modern culture, Cambridge ; Polity Press ; 1991. (fragments)
6. The Routledge companion to hermeneutics, ed. by Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander, London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2015. (fragments)
7. Thompson, John B., Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media New York, NY : John Wiley & Sons 2013. (fragments)
8. Winograd, Terry ; Flores, Carlos F., Understanding computers and cognition a new foundation for design, Norwood, NJ ; Ablex Publ.Corp. ; 1988. (fragments)
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