1. Introduction
© Serhiy Kvit

2. Hermes
the messenger and the interpreter of the gods

3. Hermes
doesn’t not lie, but does not speak the whole truth

4. Hermes
patron of eloquence, trade, sport, and deception

5. Hermes
inventor of writing and musical instruments

6. Hermes
the god of fertility

7. Hermes
Hermes game:
ambiguity of understanding

8. Hermeneutic phenomenon
humanity
human mind (algorithm, concepts and theories)
culture
(How people can understand something?)

9. The history of hermeneutics
Jewish exegetic  
ancient hermeneutics and philosophy  
Christian hermeneutics  
romantic hermeneutics  
special hermeneutics'  
philosophical hermeneutics

10. Hermeneutic genres translation considerations (dialogue) reading
essayistics

11. The phenomenon of Europe
Ancient skepticism
Christian certainty
Features of national cultures of Europeans

12. The phenomenon of Europe
Pure and immutable substance (legacy of Greek philosophy)
Person (legacy of Roman law)
Morality (Christian heritage: immortal soul, incarnation, linear understanding of time and history)

13. Dmytro Chyzhevskyi (1894-1977)
cultural-historical epochs

14. Intelligent fashions (critical-philosophical styles)
Gothic  
Renaissance  
Baroque  
Classicism  
Romanticism  
Realism
Modernism  
Psychoanalysis  
Existentialism  
Structuralism  
Post-Structuralism / Postmodernism

15. the ideology of the Middle Ages
Gothic
the ideology of the Middle Ages

16. Three reasons for the end of the Middle Ages:
Plague
Defeat of the Crusades
Scientific and geographical discoveries
The crisis of the Church
Intellectual emigration of the Greeks to Western Europe

17. Hiëronymus Bosch
Last Judgment

18. Death of Franciscus Assisiensis
Giotto di Bondone
Death of Franciscus Assisiensis

19. Renaissance
renaissance of man

20. Baroque
counterreformation

21. the text interpretation
Three levels of
the text interpretation
philosophical  
critical-philosophical (methodological)  
ideological

22. Ways of thinking (by fields) religious philosophical artistic
scientific  
national discourse (intellectualism, interpretative tradition)

23. Hermeneutic circle Friedrich Schleiermacher
(restoration of message meaning)
a part
a whole
Hans-Georg Gadamer
(creating of message meaning)

24. Martin Heidegger's predecessors and sources
Antique hermeneutics and philosophy  
Christian hermeneutics  
Wilhelm Dilthey  
Seren Kierkegaard  
Friedrich Nietzsche  
Edmund Husserl

25. Strategies Reduction of Edmund Husserl Destruction of Martin Heidegger
Deconstruction of Jacques Derrida

26. Definitions of hermeneutics
the doctrine of the understanding of meanings  
the doctrine of the interpretation of signs  
the art of applying of methodologies  
the theory of the art of understanding

27. Task
Give your own definition of hermeneutics.