LTTai antroji Hermeneutinės filosofijos studijų dvitomio knyga. Pirmojoje, pa vadintoje Būti ir klausti, buvo sudėtos svarbiausiųjų hermeneutinės filo sofijos kūrėjų idėjų apybraižos. Ši, antroji, skiriama išsamesnėms atskirų problemų analizėms, mėginant taikyti hermeneutinio mąstymo principus: istorijos, tradicijos, meno kūrinio, dirbinio, tikėjimo, filosofijos ir huma- nistikos santykio. Šia proga taip pat pristatoma hermeneutinės filosofijos ir kritinės teorijos polemika dėl dialogo ir komunikacijos prigimties bei ribų apmąstymo, taip pat hermeneutinės filosofijos bendradarbiavimo su se miotika ir diskurso teorija galimybės ir prielaidos.
ENIn the second of the two volumes of Studies in Philosophical Hermeneutics, the author coordinates historical and problematic- analytical approaches in order to further summarize the results of many years of the historical and critical study of philosophical hermeneutics. The studies included in this volume delve more deeply into several selected problematic and polemical areas.The author deals with the criticism of aesthetic experience (aesthetic consciousness) and with the alternative analysis of works of art from the perspective of phenomenological hermeneutical ontology as well as with the possibilities for a philosophical interpretation of works of art and craftsmanship. Special attention is directed at the appropriate use of analytical optics as well as at explicit and merely implicit assumptions and the possibilities for their criticism.The author considers the characteristics of philosophical hermeneutics as a nostalgic consciousness and the relationship between its reflection on art and theological discourse as well as the possibilities, in general, for the present-day use of this discourse.The author examines the hermeneutical understanding of the relationship between consciousness, history, and tradition, the status of authority and prejudice in reference to the past, and its critical reconsideration, which embraces a criticism of ideas espoused by the Enlightenment and Romanticism. In addition, the author discusses the polemics between philosophical hermeneutics and critical theory concerning the nature and limitations of dialog and communication as well as the possibilities for cooperation between philosophical hermeneutics and semiotics and discourse theory and the assumptions involved.Although this book does not claim to present a total picture of present-day philosophical hermeneutics and its relationship with other philosophical movements and fields of the humanities, this goal is borne in mind in each study: the reader is acquainted with the most important problems of philosophical hermeneutics.