Literary 2 Flashcards

1
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Gadamer understanding is mediated by

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Individual presupposition; they are necessary prerequisite

Truth and method

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2
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Gadamer universal method

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There is no one universal method, allowing to arrive at the truth

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3
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Gadamer each interpretation has to be made for each particular case

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Each interpretation has to be made for each particular case

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4
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Gadamer. Meaning

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The meaning depends on the context, rather than the authorial intention

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5
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Gadamer

Historically effected consciousness

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Being shaped by history and culture

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6
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Gadamer

Personal growth

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It is crucial to be confronted with other perspectives and worldviews

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7
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Dialogue

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Dialogue

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8
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Dialogue

Familiarizing the unknown

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The importance of familiarizing the unknown, bridging the gap between beings

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9
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Dialogue

Form a bond

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Reaching out to other beings to form a bond

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10
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Dialogue

Basis for coexistence

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It is the basis for coexistence

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11
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Dialogue

The exchange of speech acts

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Involves the exchange of speech acts…questions and answers

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12
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Dialogue

Real reader

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A real reader is a patient reader

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13
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Gadamer

Horizons

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A particular perspective, grounded in history and culture of the given period; it always limits presupposition

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14
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Gadamer

Fusion of horizons

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Coming together of two perspectives

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15
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Gadamer

Expanding horizons

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Through encounters with other culture

Art, conversation, learning, travelling

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16
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Gadamer

Change and expansion of horizons

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The change and expansion of individual understanding, enables one to interpret oneself more fully

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17
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Paul Ricoeur 1969

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The conflict of interpretations

18
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Ricoeur

Idem vs. Ipse

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What and who we are the physicality vs. Non physicality

19
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Ricoeur

Animal rational vs. Homo narran

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Without narration it is impossible to establish ones identity
Biography: first person narration, internal focalizer, story of ones life, autobiographical elements

20
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Ricoeur

Tradition

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A spiritual link between the past and the present, essential for self understanding

21
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Ricoeur

Story telling

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Help organize the temporal experience of the self, it brings to agreement and gives meaning to the various human exoerpience.
Usually these stories emphasize time and subjectively important events

22
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Ricoeur

Narrative identity

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Constructed through the narration of ones life

23
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Ricoeur
Narrative identity
Temporality

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Chronology: subjective time; profound role of memory

Subjects important for the narrator, recurring ideas

24
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Ricoeur
Narrative identity
Redemption

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Through sacrifice , recover, growth, learning , becoming better

25
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Narrative identity
Ricoeur
Contamination

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Victimization , betrayal, loss, failure, illness, injury, disappointment, or disillusionment

26
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Narrative identity
Ricoeur
Contamination
Agency

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How far is the narrator self governed, independent; who/what influences them

27
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Narrative indentity
Contamination
Relation with others and the world

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How far the communication is achieved

28
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Narrative identity
Ricoeur
Man is plural and collective unity

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In which the unity of destinations d differences of destinies are tone understood through each other.

29
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Narrative identity
Ricoeur
Man is plural

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Self exploration

30
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Narrative identity
Ricoeur
Man is plural

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Subjective importance of events as far as they relate to the narrator, the lessons the narrator draws from the story

31
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Ricoeur

Time and history

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Time is the motivating force of the self

32
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Ricoeur
Time and history

Three kinds of time

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Cosmic time, a sequence of events objective

Lived time aquires meaning through the relationship with the self subjective

Historical time, a structured connection between cosmic and lived times

33
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Ricoeur

The conflict of interpretations

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Meaning is not given directly, but through symbols, testifying to logos

34
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The conflict of interpretations

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Symbols (text) should be explained with the techniques of exegesis
Objective analysis with structuralist tools

35
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The conflict of interpretations

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There is always a surplus of meaning which cannot be explained by exegesis

36
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Then conflict

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Arises because of subjectivity of interpretations

37
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Other interpretations

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While interpreting we have to take into account other interpretations and engage in dialogues with other interpreters

38
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Meaning of acts of discourse

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Is always open to interpretation and always open to a new interpretations

39
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Which interpretation is more likely

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We can always find criteria such as comprehensiveness , for determining which interpretation is more likely

40
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Gadamer 1960

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Truth and Method