Hermeneutics Seminar II - Course Materials
Hermeneutics Seminar II - Course Materials
Bimonthly September – May 2024-25
Bimonthly September – May 2024-25
The readings comprise the following:
September 28: Digital Metaphor, Digital Hermeneutics
Chown and Nascimento, Meaningful Technologies, 25-42
Romele, “Toward a Posthuman Hermeneutics,” Journal of Posthuman Studies (later incorporated into Digital Hermeneutics)
November 16: Donald Schon: Generative Metaphor
Schon, Displacement of Concepts (brief excerpts)
Schon, “Generative Metaphor,” Metaphor and Thought, 254-83
Ricoeur, Lectures on Imagination, 261-73 (on metaphors and models; Schon)
**New - Reading Guide Questions
January 11: Metaphoric Hermeneutics
Ricoeur, Rule of Metaphor: 21-23, 196 (metaphor as origin of categorization; metaphor as resemblance)
Ricoeur, “Word, Polysemy, Metaphor: Creativity in Language” (excerpt), Ricoeur Reader, 81-85
Weinsheimer, “Metaphor as a Metaphor of Understanding,” Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory, 64-86 (previously published as “Gadamer’s Metaphorical Hermeneutics,” Gadamer and Hermeneutics)
Taylor, “Understanding as Metaphor, Not a Fusion of Horizons,” Gadamer and Ricoeur, 104-18
March 8: Dynamic Hermeneutics: Interrelation Meaning and Application; Metaphor and Justice
Argyris and Schön, Organizational Learning, 17-26, 317-18
Gadamer, Truth and Method, 327-28, 329, 332, 340-41
Ricoeur, “Interpretation and/or Argumentation” (excerpt), The Just: 121, 122, 126
Taylor, “Reenvisioning Justice,” The Ambiguity of Justice, 55-71
May 10: Student Abstracts