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15 Cards in this Set
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What is the meaning of Hermeneutics? |
The art of interpretation or the art of understanding and interpreting things correctly |
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Paul Ricoeur |
Used Gadamers texts in order to develop his brand of hermeneutics |
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Richard Rorty |
Underscores that his pragmatist version of hermeneutics must not be seen as a successor subject to epistomology |
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Critical Theory |
Members of the Frankfurt School within their leftist framework of Critical Theory, developed a version of ideology critique |
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Jürgen Habermas |
(The foremost representative of the second generation of the Frankfurt school ) misses in Gadamer a critical dimension which does not praise the value of tradition |
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Adorno |
Writings were important for the development of a Marxist literary and aesthetic theory -insists on importance of aesthetic form for the radically autonomous work of art -in order to confront the permanent threat of heteronomy, the artist has to realise the importance of form since it is form which offers the possibility of seperation from the empirical sphere and thus of aesthetic autonomy |
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Postmodern Marxism |
-the influence of the Critical Theorists has not been limited to Germany -Fredric Jameson developed a postmodern Marxism -emergence of an open and mostly indogmatic Marxist discourse is the result of his understanding of dialectical criticism -Jameson has established himself as one of the foremost theorists of postmodernism and postmodernity -> Hermeneutics and Critical Theory play an important role in contemporary debates and will continue to do so in the future |
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Schleiermacher |
Interpretation as general activity |
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Dilthey |
Looking at texts based on certain criteria, hermeneutics turned into methodological reflection on scientific status of human sciences |
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Heidegger |
When interpreting, focus on ontology instead of epistomalogy Looking at underlying force of text A text is the result of social forces behind |
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What is Critical Theory? |
-critique of society and culture through literature -Frankfurt school developed Critical Theory -Marxist Critical Theory -ideology critique, incompatible with hermeneutics -importance of aesthetic form -intends to change society |
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Postmodern Marxism |
-established by Fredric Jameson -confronting a globalised and multinational capitalism and its results in culture -dialectical criticism |
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Post-Marxism |
-theoretical endeavors against classical and orthodox Marxism -Ernesto Ladau, Chantal Mouffes texts =criticism against Marxism since 1980s |
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The philosophy of Universal Interpretation: Hermeneutics |
Theologicans developed a „hermeneutica sacra“ while jurisprudence carre to be governedby a „hermeneutica iuris“ -> Diltrey called attention to the fact understanding always involves a historical dimension; established a distinction between the human sciences and natural sciences; hermeneutics turned into a methodolical reflection on the scientific status of the human sciences and their claim to the trth |
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Horizontverschmelzung |
A fusion of one`s own horizon of historical meaning, assumptions and prejudices with the historical horizon of the text or work of art |
