MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996


CRT4220

Hermeneutics

Walter Veit

8 or 12 points + 2 hours per week + First semester + Clayton

Synopsis The subject studies the main events in the development of hermeneutics from a theory and practice of textual interpretation during the Englightenment and the nineteenth century to a modern theory of understanding and knowledge in the work of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jurgen Habermas, as well as its application in the study of literature and history in the work of E D Hirsch, Emilio Betti, Paul Ricoeur and Hans Robert Jauss. It addresses problems such as the conflict between subjectivity and objectivity, the dialectics of the foreign and the familiar, the recognition of the new, the role of language and the function of tradition in understanding, the universality of hermeneutics as a theory of cognition and its impact on the social sciences.

Assessment (8 points) Two seminar papers + Research essay (4000 words)

Assessment (12 points) Two seminar papers + Research essay (6000 words)

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