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Literary hermeneutics as an initiation and contraposition of philosophical hermeneutics
CHVOJKA, Peter
The main theme of this thesis is the concept of literary hermeneutics which appears here as a rather incongruous fusion of ontological philosophy and interpretive method of literary criticism. The thesis adopts a critical attitude towards both the above mentioned poles: philosophical hermeneutics and literary interpretation. The polemic with the paradigm of philosophy and literary criticism takes a form of three inquiries into the semiotic models of three founding cultures of western thought: classical antiquity, Judaism and Christianity. A revision of the key points of contact among these civilizations is undertaken - the thesis also traces the influence of such contacts on their conceptions of signs, writing, text, interpretation and before all on human self reflection. In the works of Derrida and Ricoeur we discover a dialogue between Judaism and Christianity in the new context of literary criticism. In the end, literary hermeneutics is seen in terms of a dialectic tension between the deconstruction and the possibility of understanding. The role of literary hermeneutics lies in referring to the religious dimension of literature.

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