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Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

Code: 100300 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500246 Philosophy OB 3

Contact

Name:
Jesus Hernandez Reynes
Email:
jesus.hernandez@uab.cat

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Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites.


Objectives and Contextualisation

1. Understanding the basics of phenomenology and hermeneutics.
2. Analyze key philosophical texts and develop critical interpretation skills.
3. Relate phenomenological and hermeneutic theories to other fields of knowledge.
4. Encourage reflection on human experience and meaning.

Competences

  • Act within one's own area of knowledge, evaluating sex/gender-based inequalities.
  • Analysing and summarising the main arguments of fundamental texts of philosophy in its various disciplines.
  • Placing the most representative philosophical ideas and arguments of a period in their historical background and relating the most important authors of each period of any philosophical discipline.
  • Recognising and interpreting topics and problems of philosophy in its various disciplines.
  • Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
  • Thinking in a critical and independent manner on the basis of the specific topics, debates and problems of philosophy, both historically and conceptually.
  • Using the symbology and procedures of the formal sciences in the analysis and building of arguments.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Applying philosophical rigour in a written text following the international quality standards.
  2. Autonomously searching, selecting and processing information both from structured sources (databases, bibliographies, specialized magazines) and from across the network.
  3. Carrying out oral presentations using an appropriate academic vocabulary and style.
  4. Communicate by making non-sexist, non-discriminatory use of language.
  5. Communicating in the studied language in oral and written form, properly using vocabulary and grammar.
  6. Distinguishing and analysing representative texts of the main genres of the philosophical literature.
  7. Distinguishing and outlining the fundamental content of a philosophical text.
  8. Distinguishing the topics of philosophical relevance in current debates.
  9. Documenting a philosophical issue and contrasting its sources.
  10. Establishing relationships between science, philosophy, art, religion, politics, etc.
  11. Explaining aspects of the history of science by using the discipline's specific terminology.
  12. Explaining the specific notions of the History of Philosophy.
  13. Identifying the main ideas of a related text and drawing a diagram.
  14. Indicating and discussing the main characteristics of the distinctive thought of a period and contextualizing them.
  15. Indicating and summarising the common content of several manifestations of various fields of culture.
  16. Organizing their own time and work resources: designing plans with priorities of objectives, calendars and action commitments.
  17. Producing a philosophical work of analysis of relevant aspects of contemporary culture that includes an assessment of its value.
  18. Reading thoroughly philosophical texts of the History of Philosophy.
  19. Recognise and define the common thinking present in a multidisciplinary context.
  20. Recognising, with a critical eye, philosophical referents of the past and present and assessing its importance.
  21. Relating several ideas of the current philosophical debates.
  22. Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  23. Rigorously building philosophical arguments.
  24. Solving problems autonomously.
  25. Summarising the topics and arguments exposed in a classical philosophical debate.
  26. Using suitable terminology when drawing up an academic text.

Content

Block 1: Introduction to Phenomenology
1. Edmund Husserl.
 1.1. The crisis of European sciences and transcendental phenomenology.
 1.2. The concept of intentionality.
 1.3. The phenomenological reduction and the epoché.
2. Existential Phenomenology
 2.1. Martin Heidegger: Being and Time.
 2.2. Existential analytics: Dasein, being-in-the-world, and temporality.
Block 2: Introduction to Hermeneutics
3. Hans-Georg Gadamer
 3.1. Truth and method: the fusion of horizons.
 3.2. The historicity of understanding and the role of prejudice.
 3.3. Dialogue and hermeneutic application.
4. Paul Ricoeur
 4.1. Hermeneutics of texts and action.
 4.2. The triple mimesis and the narrative.
 4.3. Narrative identity and self-interpretation.

Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Lectures and class discussions 50 2 23, 8, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 21, 25
Type: Autonomous      
Text readings 92.5 3.7 2, 23, 8, 6, 7, 9, 17, 10, 12, 5, 3, 26, 13, 14, 18, 16, 20, 21, 24, 25

The subject combines lectures with seminar sessions and class discussion of the main readings of the course. Students actively participate in the analysis of the texts and in the learning process.

Note: 15 minutes of a class will be set aside, within the calendar established by the center/degree, for students to fill in the teacher performance and subject evaluation surveys /module.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Group presentation 30% 2.5 0.1 15, 2, 23, 8, 6, 7, 9, 17, 10, 12, 5, 26, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25
Written test 1 40% 2.5 0.1 1, 2, 4, 23, 8, 7, 10, 11, 12, 5, 3, 26, 14, 18, 16, 20, 21, 22, 25
Written test 2 30% 2.5 0.1 2, 23, 8, 7, 10, 12, 5, 26, 13, 14, 18, 16, 20, 21, 25

The continuous evaluation system consists of:
1. Two partial exams (60%)
2. A group exhibition (30%)
3. Attendance and participation in class (10%)
Unique assessment
The single assessment will consist of an exam with two parts corresponding to the two blocks and a paper (2000-2500 words) on a topic chosen in agreement with the teacher that must be handed in on the same day as the exam.
recovery
To take part in the recovery, the student must have previously been assessed in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 parts of the total qualification (CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT) or hand in all the scheduled tests (SINGLE EVALUATION).
At the time of carrying out each assessment activity, the teacher will inform the students (Moodle) of the procedure and the date of review of the qualifications.
The student will receive the grade of "Not assessable" as long as he has not delivered more than 1/3 of the assessment activities.
In the event that the student commits any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an assessment act, this assessment act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be instituted. In the event that several irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0.

Bibliography

PHENOMENOLOGY

1. Basic texts

HUSSERL, Edmund (1985): «La tesis de la actitud natural y la desconexión de la misma» y «Estructuras universales de la conciencia pura». En Ideas relativas a una fenomenología pura y una filosofía fenomenológica (1913). Alianza Editorial, Madrid, pp. 64-73 y 169-202.

HUSSERL, Edmund (1991): «La matematización galileana de la naturaleza» y «Exposición del problema de una ciencia del mundo de vida».  En La crisis de las ciencias europeas (1935). Crítica, Madrid, pp. 23-61 y 130-141.

HUSSERL, Edmund (1998): «La filosofía en la crisis de la humanidad europea» (1935). En Invitación a la fenomenología. Paidós Studio, Barcelona, pp. 75-128.

HUSSERL, Edmund (1999): «La filosofia com a ciència estricta» (1911). En Fenomenologia. Edicions 62, Barcelona, pp. 47-126.

HUSSERL, Edmund (2002): Lecciones de fenomenología de la conciencia  interna del tiempo (1905). Trotta, Madrid.

HUSSERL, Edmund (2011): La idea de la fenomenología (1907), Herder, Barcelona.

LEVINAS, Emmanuel (1977): «El rostro y la exterioridad». En Totalidad e infinito. Ensayo sobre la exterioridad (1961). Sígueme, Barcelona, pp. 201-261.

LEVINAS, Emmanuel (1993): El Tiempo y el Otro (1947). Paidós I.C.E-U.A.B, Barcelona.

LEVINAS, Emmanuel (1999): De la evasión (1935). Arena Libros, Madri.

MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice (1988): «Elogi de la filosofia» (1953). En Elogi de la filosofia i altres assaigs. Laia, Barcelona, pp. 29-78.

MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice (1993): «El cuerpo». En Fenomenología de la percepción (1945). Planeta de Agostini, Barcelona, esp. pp.108-190. 

SARTRE, J.P. (2001). La transcendència de l’ego (1936). Laia, Barcelona.

SARTRE, J.P. (1948): “Conscience de soi et connaissance de soi”. Bulletin de la Societé Française de Philosophie 42, pp. 49-91.

SARTRE, J.P. (1982): El ser y la nada (1943). Aguilar, Madrid (selección de capítulos).

 

2. Secondary literature

BELL, David (1990): Husserl. Routledge, Nueva York.

BERNET, Rudolf, KERN, Iso y MARBACH, Eduard (21996): Edmund Husserl. Darstellung seines Denkens. Felix Meiner, Hamburgo.

CROWELL, Steven G. (2001). Husserl, Heidegger, and the space of Meaning: Paths toward Transcendental Phenomenology. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

DARTIGUES, A. (1975): La fenomenología. Herder, Barcelona.

DERRIDA, Jacques (1996): La voz y el fenómeno. Pretextos, Madrid.

FINK, Eugen (1966): De la phénoménologie. Minuit, París.

GARCÍA-BARO, Miguel (1999): Vida y mundo. La práctica de la fenomenología. Trotta, Madrid.

HAMMOND, Michael, HOWARTH, Jane y RUSSELL, Kent (1991): Understanding phenomenology. Basil Blackwell, Oxford y Cambridge (Massachusetts).

KOLAWOSKI, Ieszek (21994): Husserl y la búsqueda de la certeza. Alianza Editorial, Madrid. *

LANDGREBE, P.L. (1968): El camino de la fenomenología. Sudamericana, Buenos Aires.

LYOTARD, Jean-François (1989): La fenomenología. Paidós Studio, Barcelona.

MACANN, Christopher (1993): Four phenomenological philosophers. Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty. Routledge, London y Nueva York.

MARION, Jean-Luc (1989): Réduction et donation: recherches sur Husserl, Heidegger et la phénoménologie. Press Universitaires de France, París.

MONTERO, Fernando (1987): Retorno a la fenomenología. Anthropos, Barcelona.

SAN MARTÍN, Javier (1987): La fenomenología de Husserl como utopía de la razón. Anthropos, Barcelona.

SCHÜTZ, Alfred y LUCKMANN, Thomas (1973): Las estructuras del mundo de la vida. Amorrortu, Buenos Aires.

TAMINIAUX, Jacques (2002): Sillages phénoménologiques. Auditeurs et lectures de Heidegger. Ousia, París.

SPIEGELBERG, Herbert (31994): The Phenomenological Movement. A Historical Introduction. Martinus Nijhoff, La Haya.

WALDENFELS, Bernhard (1997): De Husserl a Derrida. Introducción a la fenomenología. Paidós Studio, Barcelona.

ZAHAVI, Dan (2003): Husserl’s Phenomenology. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

ZUBIRI, Xavier (31985): Cinco lecciones de filosofía. Alianza Editorial, Madrid.

 

2. HERMENEUTICS

  1. Basic texts

DILTHEY, Wilhelm (2000): «El surgimiento de la hermenéutica» (1900). En Dos escritos sobre hermenéutica. Istmo, Madrid, pp. 21-80.

FOUCAULT, Michel (2005). La hermenéutica del sujeto (1982). Akal, Barcelona.

GADAMER, Hans Georg (2001): «Hermenéutica clásica y hermenéutica filosófica»(1968). En Antología. Sígueme, Salamanca, pp. 57-84.

GADAMER, Hans-Georg (1993): El problema de la conciencia histórica (1963). Tecnos, Madrid.

GADAMER, Hans-Georg (31988): «Fundamentos para una teoría de la experiencia hermenéutica» y «El lenguaje como hilo conductor del giro ontológico de la hermenéutica». En Verdad y método. Fundamentos de una hermenéutica filosófica (1960). Sígueme, Salamanca, pp. 331-459 y 461-585.

HEIDEGGER, Martin (2007): El concepto de tiempo (1924). Herder, Barcelona.

HEIDEGGER, Martin (2009): Ser y tiempo (1927). Trotta, Madrid (selección de parágrafos).

HEIDEGGER, Martin (2002): De camino al lenguaje (1958). Serbal, Barcelona.

RICOEUR, Paul (32008): Sí mismo como otro (1990). Siglo XXI, Barcelona.

RICOEUR, P. (1992): Tiempo y narración. III. El tiempo narrado (1985). Trotta, Madrid.

SCHLEIERMACHER, Friedrich (1999): Los discursos sobre hermenéutica (1829). Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, Navarra.

 

2. Secondary literature

ADRIÁN, Jesús (2015). Guía de lectura de Ser y tiempo de Martin Heidegger (2vv.). Herter, Barcelona.

BENGOA, Javier (1992): De Heidegger a Habermas. Hermenéutica y teoría crítica. Herder, Barcelona.

BETTI, Enzo (1955): Teoria generale della interpretazione (2vv.). Milán.

BLEICHER, Josef (1980): Contemporary Hermeneutics. Routledge, Londres y Nueva York.

CAPUTO, John (1987): Radical Hermeneutics. Repetition, Deconstruction and the Hermeneutic Project. Indiana University Press, Bloomington e Indianápolis.

COLTMAN, Rod (1998): The Language of Hermeneutics. Gadamer and Heidegger in Dialogue. State University of New York Press, Albany.

DOSSE, François (2001) : Paul Ricoeur. Le sens d’une vie. La Découverte, Paris.

FERRARIS, Mauricio (32003): La hermenéutica. Taurus, Madrid.

GADAMER, Hans-Georg (31988): «Preliminares históricos de la hermenéutica». En Verdad y método. Fundamentos de una hermenéutica filosófica. Sígueme, Madrid, 225-330.

GRONDIN, Jean (2000): Hans Georg Gadamer. Una biografía. Herder, Barcelona.

GRONDIN, Jean (2002): Introducción a la hermenéutica. Herder, Barcelona.

IHDE, Don y SILVERMANN, Hugh (ed.) (1985): Hermeneutics and Deconstruction. State University of New York Press, Albany.

LAFONT, Cristina (1993): La razón como lenguaje. Una revisión del ‹giro lingüístico› en la filosofía del lenguaje alemana. Visor, Madrid.

LEYTE, Arturo (2006). Heidegger. Alianza, Madrid.

MACEIRAS, Manuel y TREBOLLE, Julio (1990): La hermenéutica contemporánea. Cincel, Madrid.

MADISON, G.B. (1988): The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity. Figures and Themes. Indiana University Press, Blomington e Indianapolis.  

PALMER, Richard (1969): Hermeneutics. Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer. Northwestern University Press, Evanston.

PÖGGELER, Otto (1983): Heidegger und die hermeneutische Philosophie. Karl Alber, Freiburgo-Munich.

RICOEUR, Paul (1986): «Pour une phénoménologie herméneutique». En Du texte a l’action. Essais d’herméneutique II. Éditions du Seuil, París, pp. 39-135.

SILVERMAN, Hugh (ed.) (1991): Gadamer and Hermeneutics. Heidegger, Barthes, Ricoeur, Habermas, Derrida. Routledge, London y Nueva York.

VATTIMO, Gianni (1995): Más allá de la interpretación. Paidós-I.C.E./UAB, Barcelona.


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Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan first semester morning-mixed