Introduction © Serhiy Kvit

Hermes the messenger and the interpreter of the gods

Hermes doesn’t not lie, but does not speak the whole truth

Hermes patron of eloquence, trade, sport, and deception

Hermes inventor of writing and musical instruments

Hermes the god of fertility

Hermes Hermes game: ambiguity of understanding

Hermeneutic phenomenon humanity human mind (algorithm, concepts and theories) culture (How people can understand something?)

The history of hermeneutics Jewish exegetic   ancient hermeneutics and philosophy   Christian hermeneutics   romantic hermeneutics   special hermeneutics'   philosophical hermeneutics

Hermeneutic genres translation considerations (dialogue) reading essayistics

The phenomenon of Europe Ancient skepticism Christian certainty Features of national cultures of Europeans

The phenomenon of Europe Pure and immutable substance (legacy of Greek philosophy) Person (legacy of Roman law) Morality (Christian heritage: immortal soul, incarnation, linear understanding of time and history)

Dmytro Chyzhevskyi (1894-1977) cultural-historical epochs

Intelligent fashions (critical-philosophical styles) Gothic   Renaissance   Baroque   Classicism   Romanticism   Realism Modernism   Psychoanalysis   Existentialism   Structuralism   Post-Structuralism / Postmodernism

the ideology of the Middle Ages Gothic the ideology of the Middle Ages

Three reasons for the end of the Middle Ages: Plague Defeat of the Crusades Scientific and geographical discoveries The crisis of the Church Intellectual emigration of the Greeks to Western Europe

Hiëronymus Bosch Last Judgment

Death of Franciscus Assisiensis Giotto di Bondone Death of Franciscus Assisiensis

Renaissance renaissance of man

Baroque counterreformation

the text interpretation Three levels of the text interpretation philosophical   critical-philosophical (methodological)   ideological

Ways of thinking (by fields) religious philosophical artistic scientific   national discourse (intellectualism, interpretative tradition)

Hermeneutic circle Friedrich Schleiermacher (restoration of message meaning) a part a whole Hans-Georg Gadamer (creating of message meaning)

Martin Heidegger's predecessors and sources Antique hermeneutics and philosophy   Christian hermeneutics   Wilhelm Dilthey   Seren Kierkegaard   Friedrich Nietzsche   Edmund Husserl

Strategies Reduction of Edmund Husserl Destruction of Martin Heidegger Deconstruction of Jacques Derrida

Definitions of hermeneutics the doctrine of the understanding of meanings   the doctrine of the interpretation of signs   the art of applying of methodologies   the theory of the art of understanding

Task Give your own definition of hermeneutics.