scholarly journals Culture and Self-Knowledge. Around the Concept of Hermeneutics Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur

2013 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 258-273
Author(s):  
Andrzej Borkowski ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 51-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Georg Gadamer ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Jean Grondin ◽  

Artifex Novus ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 2-19
Author(s):  
Urszula Mazurczak

SUMMARY The Author separated the visualized time and the time when the painting was created. Both are rooted in the point of history which was important for the artist, in the time of creating the work of art as well as in the internal structure of the painting which is expressed through the theme and the presented figures. The researcher who was deeply influenced by history, browsed it deeply in order to find every “now”, adding it to the timeline of the artist’s life, or to the history he was a part of. The timeline, history, constitutes a basis of the knowledge about the artist’s workshop and it is the basis for the historical-comparative method. The Priest Professor Pasierb knew hermeneutics with the hermeneutic circle of Hans Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. In his exploration of the temporal structure of his works of art he indicates to the reader the circular structure of the composition, which is typical for the scenes of the greatest masters of the Baroque, e.g. The Coronation of Mary, The Adoration of the Shepherds. The structure of time is particularly important in the portraits of Herman Han in the painting of 17th century. The analysis of the paintings of the master of Gdańsk Herman Han, especially of his painting The Coronation of the Virgin Mary in the main altar in Pelplin is an introduction for discovering the circular structures of time and space. It shows the Author’s concepts as close to the traditional Antique concepts of time: as the two opposites: Chronos – the inevitable time which consumes everything on its way and Kairos, the fugacious moment which can, however, be stopped by wisdom, beauty, the ability of predicting. The sensitivity to time, the Kairos, was expressed by the priest Professor Pasierb who was impressed by a Greek vase painted by Makron (Paris, Louvre) “long-haired boy with a hoop and with a dog, quickly running round an attic goblet, looking back where they are calling you, come back, you didn’t listen, today it is too late, twenty-five centuries passed. The painter Makron whom you passed by so quickly, managed to write kalos – Beautiful”. The basic method used for the analysis of time and space in the painting is the hermeneutic method of Paul Ricoeur and Hans Georg Gadamer.


Author(s):  
Leszek Kleszcz ◽  

Originally, hermeneutics was the interpretation of important texts. In the 19th century, hermeneutics transformed into a science about the meaning and interpretation of all expressions. In the 20th century, Martin Heidegger radicalized hermeneutics, indicating that understanding (the essence of hermeneutics) is not a technical or intellectual operation, but a way of being. The central point of reference in the article is the hermeneutic philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. The central idea of Gadamer’s philosophy is understanding, which is connected with the so-called “rehabilitation of practical philosophy”. In such philosophy, the question concerning wisdom and thinking about the best possible way of life occupies an important place. Gadamer in his philosophy indicated the conditions of understanding. One of the main elements of his concept is hermeneutic experience, a negative experience, meaning awareness of the finite nature of all understanding. Complementation of Gadamer’s concept could be the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. He believed that there is not a correct method of interpretation and the best way to understand is the “conflict of hermeneutics”. Ricoeure discerned two forms of hermeneutics: “hermeneutics of trust” and “hermeneutics of suspicion”. The idea of hermeneutics is developed as an art of understanding, indicating the conditions and possibilities of interpreting texts, symbols and metaphors. An interesting addition to the philosophy of Gadamer and Ricoeur is Hans Blumenberg’s concept of metaphorology. He identified three basic positions of metaphors and the functions they perform: traditional, understanding a metaphor as inaccurate; pre-conceptual speech; and the unavoidable and irreplaceable nature of a metaphor. Under this concept lies the science of images through which man grasps himself and the world. Blumenberg explored the functions of various metaphors depicting truth (light, nudity), human life (sea travel, hiking, climbing) or the world (clock, machine, organism). Absolute metaphors, in addition to presenting the picture of the whole of reality, also play the role of orienting patterns, directing action. They contain certain value systems that determine attitudes, expectations, longings, interests, and indicate important or indifferent things or spheres, incline to certain actions or omissions.


Author(s):  
John B. Thompson

Paul Ricoeur is one of the leading French philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. Along with the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, Ricoeur is one of the main contemporary exponents of philosophical hermeneutics: that is, of a philosophical orientation which places particular emphasis on the nature and role of interpretation. While his early work was strongly influenced by Husserl’s phenomenology, he became increasingly concerned with problems of interpretation and developed – partly through detailed inquiries into psychoanalysis and structuralism – a distinctive hermeneutical theory. In his later writings Ricoeur explores the nature of metaphor and narrative, which are viewed as ways of creating new meaning in language.


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (84) ◽  
pp. 30-49
Author(s):  
Valderí de Castro Alcântara ◽  
André Luiz de Paiva ◽  
Mozar José de Brito

Resumo Apresentamos uma abordagem epistemo-metodológica para o estudo dos elementos interpretativos e ideológicos presentes nos textos que constituem as estratégias por meio da hermenêutica crítica. Revisamos as aproximações e distâncias entre os filósofos Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Paul Ricoeur e suas contribuições para desvelar os fenômenos hermenêuticos e ideológicos na interpretação de textos estratégicos. No escopo da perspectiva da estratégia como prática, destacamos como posicionamento epistemológico os vínculos entre interpretação, crítica e ideologia; o status epistemológico das relações autor↔texto↔intérprete inseridos em seus contextos e nos situamos em uma abordagem que compartilha elementos das matrizes crítica/dialética e hermenêutica. Metodologicamente, indicamos a importância dos círculos críticos-hermenêuticos em dois movimentos interdependentes (hermenêutico e crítico/dialético) e três momentos (contextual/sócio-histórico; formal/textual e interpretação-reinterpretação). Consideramos que algumas das “caixas-pretas” da estratégia são ideologias, comunicações distorcidas e deformações que “escurecem” os processos de interpretação e crítica. A hermenêutica crítica é apresentada para “lançar luz” sobre esses fenômenos, de um “lugar” que pauta sua coerência na crítica que é hermenêutica e na hermenêutica que é crítica.


2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 768-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Elisabeth Wilhelm

Résumé L’auteur examine les questions de « l’appropriation » et du rapport du « propre » à « l’étranger », qui traversent toute la tradition de l’herméneutique philosophique, de Friedrich Schleiermacher à Hans-Georg Gadamer et Paul Ricoeur, en rapport avec la traduction. Si l’herméneute est un traducteur pour les grands représentants de la tradition, il importe donc d’examiner comment la traduction est le modèle de l’interprétation. Le texte, en tant qu’écriture appelant la lecture, et donc l’acte d’interprétation, constitue la dimension essentielle de l’herméneutique et le point de rencontre de la réflexion herméneutique et de la traductologie. En s’attachant à décrire le processus de la compréhension et en posant la question du sens, l’herméneutique philosophique peut contribuer, selon l’auteur, aux fondements épistémologiques d’une théorie de la traduction.


Horizons ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-198
Author(s):  
Peter Feldmeier

Philosophical approaches to hermeneutics, such as we find in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, offer insights into how a classic text expands one's horizons, through both a dynamic game of conversation between reader and text and the enlarged sense of self that comes from entering into the proposed world of the text. Comparative theology follows these leads by showing how engaging in the canons of the religious other allows one fresh insights into one's own religious tradition's familiar and revered truths. This article is an exercise in such an approach, examining three Asian traditions and samples from their most classic textual representatives. By engaging the Dhammapada from Theravada Buddhism, classic sayings from Zen, and the Dao-De-Jing and Zhuangzi from the Daoist tradition, we see how we might appropriate the Catholic theological and spiritual traditions with fresh eyes and new insights.


KWALON ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adri Smaling

Hermeneutics and qualitative research: historical roots and contemporary relevance Some ideas from the hermeneutic philosophers Friedrich Schleiermacher, Wilhelm Dilthey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, the hermeneutic sociologist and philosopher of science Max Weber are discussed insofar as their ideas have influenced and are still relevant to qualitative methodology. Remarkably, hermeneutics and phenomenology are nowadays fruitfully combined within qualitative inquiry.


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