Course: Phenomenology and Theory of Communication

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Course title Phenomenology and Theory of Communication
Course code KFI/FENK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Profant Martin, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Relations of man, philosophy, science and world (Patočka); transcendental phenomenology, being, world (Husserl, Heidegger); existence and transcendence, sameness-otherness/alterity (Lévinas, Ricoeur, Waldenfels); bodiness, subject/object (Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Sartre); history, culture and memory (Heidegger, Patočka, Ricoeur, Assmann); intentionality, symbol, truth and interpretation (Gadamer, Ricoeur); internal/external language and history, timeness (Patočka, Arendt, Marion); natural language, mathematization and popularization of science, reductive and universal (Husserl, Lévi-Strauss, Grondin); time, perception, understanding, sense and meaning (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras).

Learning activities and teaching methods
Textual studies, Lecture, Seminar
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 52 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 8 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 60 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to describe basic conceptions in a European philosophical tradition
to use contemporary philosophical terminology
knowledge of basic moments of European 20th century history, to distinguish philosophy, science, techniques and arts
Skills
to analyze and interpret philosophical literature (in Czech and English)
to use basic notions of philosophy, linguistic, and social science and arts, eventually
to discuss abstract philosophical conceptions, motives and arguments
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to explain and use key concepts, notions and ideas of phenomenological philosophy and hermeneutics
to explain language-speech oriented problems of phenomenological philosophy and hermeneutics
to characterize attitudes and thoughts of primary texts of mentioned philosophers
Skills
to apply particular phenomenological attitudes and hermeneutic methods to read text and speech of scholarly discurs
to distinguish and analyze particular problems of phenomenology and hermeneutics
to critically read texts of mentioned philosophers
to recognize significance of thoughts, phenomena and subject-object relations for recent philoshophy as well as a situation of man in world
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Textual studies
Self-study of literature
Skills
Seminar classes
Students' portfolio
Skills demonstration
Competences
Textual studies
Students' portfolio
Skills demonstration
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Skills
Combined exam
Individual presentation at a seminar
Synopsis of seminar papers
Competences
Combined exam
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • Barbaras, Renaud. Druhý. 1. vyd. Praha : Filosofia, 1998. ISBN 80-7007-104-4.
  • Grondin, Jean. Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics. Yale University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-3000-7089-7.
  • Grondin, Jean. Úvod do hermeneutiky. 1. vyd. Praha : Oikoymenh, 1997. ISBN 80-86005-43-7.
  • Heidegger, Martin. Bytí a čas. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2002. ISBN 80-7298-048-3.
  • Lévinas, Emmanuel. Totalita a nekonečno : esej o exterioritě. 1. vyd. Praha : Oikoymenh, 1997. ISBN 80-86005-20-8.
  • Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity. Dordrecht-Boston-London : Kluwer Academic Press, 1991. ISBN 90-247-2288-8.
  • Marion, Jean-Luc. Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8047-3411-9.
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Fenomenologie vnímání. 1. vyd. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7298-485-5.
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phénoménologie de la perception. [Paris] : Gallimard, 1967.
  • Patočka, Jan; Dodd, James. Body, community, language, world. Chicago : Open Court, 1998. ISBN 0-8126-9359-0.
  • Patočka, Jan; Dodd, James; Ricoeur, Paul. Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History. Chicago : Open Court, 1996. ISBN 978-0-812-69337-9.
  • Patočka, Jan. Kacířské eseje o filosofii dějin. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7298-275-2.
  • Patočka, Jan. Tělo, společenství, jazyk, svět. 1. vyd. Praha : ISE, 1995. ISBN 80-85241-90-0.
  • Ricoeur, Paul. History and Truth. Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1965. ISBN 0-8101-0598-5.
  • Ricoeur, Paul. Memory, history, forgetting. Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-226-71342-7.
  • Ricoeur, Paul. Život, pravda, symbol. 2. upr.vyd. Praha : ISE, 1993. ISBN 80-85241-32-3.
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul. Bytí a nicota : pokus o fenomenologickou ontologii. Vyd. 1. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2006. ISBN 80-7298-097-1.
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul. L'?tre et le néant : essai d'ontologie phénoménologique. [Paris] : Gallimard, 1991. ISBN 2-07-029388-2.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Theory and Philosophy of Communication (17-4) Category: Philosophy, theology 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter