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Radboud UniversiteitStudiegidsenFaculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen > Course Guide Research Master Philosophy

Metaphysics (Research Seminar) 2 

The Transformation of Hermeneutics in Heidegger from Being and Time to Ereignis-Denken
(Vakcode)
Course ID
FTR-FIRM03
(Studiepunten)
Credits
9
(Niveau)
Level
master
Schedule (Rooster)
Dates and places will be announced via Blackboard as soon as possible.
Tentameneisen
Research Master students must write a report at the end of each meeting and write a final research paper at the end of the semester of 4.000-5.000 words.
Teaching method (Onderwijsvorm)

Introductory presentations, collective text reading, discussions, final paper. Students are required to read carefully the text prior to each meeting and formulate their questions. One of the students will give the introduction of the text scheduled for that day. The same student will also chair the meeting and select passages for close reading. Each student is expected to give one or more introductions during the seminar, depending on the number of participants. The other students hand in a summary of the previous meeting. Each meeting will start with a brief discussion of the summaries and questions concerning the previous meeting. Please use these summaries as a way of deepening the material of the last time! At the end of the course, every student writes a paper on a topic related to the seminar of approximately 4500 words. This paper should discuss at least five pieces of secondary literature (articles, chapters from books, etc.).

Objectives (Doelstelling)
  • Students will gain a good insight into the hermeneutical turn of phenomenology;
  • Students will become aware of the increasingly important place that language gains in Heidegger’s philosophy and of the recurrent transformations that his philosophy undergoes;
  • Students will have a clear picture of the relations between understanding, interpretation, hearing, meaning, historicity and language in Heidegger’s philosophy;
  • Students will be able to critically assess Heidegger’s idea of hermeneutics and language.
Contents (Beschrijving)

In the Spring Semester 2012, we will trace the development of hermeneutics in Heidegger from Being and Time to his later lectures on language. This research seminar seeks to critically assess the transformations that take place from his well-rounded conception of hermeneutics in Being and Time to his more tentative later analyses dedicated to language. We shall read a number of selected chapters and sections from three of his most relevant lectures on language (see bibliography). In this seminar we will pay special attention to the relation between language, being and thinking, in order to understand why any thinking of being, thus any philosophy, depends, according to Heidegger, on man’s relation to language. What does it mean that language is the place where being reveals itself and where man can have access to being? Is this conception of philosophy as language-dependent necessarily a hermeneutic philosophy? What are the arguments in favour and against viewing Heidegger’s later philosophy of language as a practice of hermeneutics?

 

 

Literature (Literatuur)

Primary literature:

  • Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, English translation by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, Harper & Row Publishers, 2008;
  • Martin Heidegger, On The Way to Language, English translation by Peter D. Hertz, Harper & Row Publishers, 1971;
  • Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking?, English translation by J. Glenn Gray, Harper & Row Publishers, 2004;
  • Martin Heidegger, Identity and Difference, English translation by Joan Stambaugh, University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Recommended secondary literature:

  • Robert Bernasconi, The question of language in Heidegger's History of being, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1985;
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, Weg und Methode, Zur hermeneutischen Phänomenologie des seinsgeschichtlichen Denkens, Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1990;
  • Dietmar Koch, Zur Hermeneutischen Phänomenologie. Ein Aufriß, Tübingen: Attempo Verlag, 1992;
  • Hans Ruin, Enigmatic Origins. Tracing the Theme of Historicity through Heidegger’s Works, Stockholm Studies in Philosophy 15, 1994;
  • Susanne Ziegler, Zum Verhältnis von Dichten und Denken bei Martin Heidegger, Tübingen: Attempo Verlag, 1998.

 

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