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August Boeckh, klasični filolog in hermenevtik

Authors :
Brane Senegačnik
Source :
Primerjalna književnost. 44
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts / Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti (ZRC SAZU), 2021.

Abstract

August Boeckh is one of the most important classical scholars of the nineteenth century. His vast and varied oeuvre forms an excellent starting-point for reflecting concepts, fields, methods, and epistemological limitations (and nowadays the intercultural dialogue) of Classical Philology or Classical Studies. In addition, Boeckh was an influential methodologist and an early theorist of hermeneutics. On the grounds of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s work, he built a branching system of philological methodology, defining the aim of philology as “the recognition of something already recognised before.” Particularly typical of his theory is the emphasis on the role played by human individuality both in the creation and explication of texts. Rather than conceptually, individuality can be known and defined only through intuition (durch lebendige Anschauung). This idea is of historical importance, for individuality had a major role in the phenomenological and psychological interpretations of literary works in the twentieth century, including in reception theory. In contemporary anthropological, cognitive, and social-science models of literature research, however, it is losing its purpose and meaning, which necessarily affects the prevailing apprehension of literature.

Details

ISSN :
25911805 and 03511189
Volume :
44
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Primerjalna književnost
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........691d64516375603ed5a7419a3242b1f8
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3986/pkn.v44.i2.07