Original title: Jak společnosti rozumět? Hermeneutický pohled na sociologii a její poznávání
Translated title: How to understand society? Hermeneutical perspective on sociology and its knowledge
Authors: Horák, Vít ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Ďurďovič, Martin (referee) ; Hroch, Jaroslav (referee)
Document type: Doctoral theses
Year: 2015
Language: cze
Abstract: [cze] [eng]
Práce představuje filosofickou hermeneutiku a teorii humanitních věd Hanse-Georga Gadamera jako možnou alternativu pro sociologickou metateorii. Využívá k tomu Gadamerovu řečovou ontologii, koncept hermeneutického kruhu i dialektiku otázky a odpovědi. Je-li současná sociologii v postmoderních podmínkách charakterizována epistemologickou otevřeností a pluralitou, pak filosofická hermeneutika tento stav uchopuje už na úrovni ontologické. Nabízí chápat sociologický předmět zájmu nikoliv jako realitu, nýbrž jako bytostně otevřenou otázku. Sociologií se pak rozumí tradice, která na tuto otázku odpovídá. Tento přístup umožňuje pluralizaci sociologických směrů, aniž by jejím důsledkem musela být roztříštěnost oboru. The thesis strives to introduce and outline a new understanding of sociology based on the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The aim of the thesis is to differentiate the hermeneutical approach from the scientific and from the interpretative paradigm in particular. Hermeneutics does see sociology neither as a science nor as a science of specific (interpretative, hermeneutical, understanding or critical) type, which must be cleared out in the context of the sociological metatheory. I explain the key differences between scientific and hermeneutic point of view according to the works of Martin Heidegger and H.-G. Gadamer. Heidegger is instructive for me in the way he reveals the metaphysical roots of modern science. He discloses science as a specific and historical dependent understanding of the world and the man within it. Gadamer's hermeneutics then proclaims understanding as a universal and more fundamental aspect of human being-in-the-world and expounds it with the notion of language, dialogue, the hermeneutical circle, the logic of question and answer, tradition or sensus communis. After differentiating hermeneutics from existing sociological streams of thought I try to use Gadamer's concepts to conceive of society and sociology. I propose to understand society as a historical...
Keywords: H.-G. Gadamer; M. Heidegger; Philosophical hermeneutics; Philosophy of social sciences; Filosofická hermeneutika; filosofie sociálních věd; H.-G. Gadamer; M. Heidegger

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/64643

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