Please read the abstract in the section, 00front, of this document / Thesis (PhD (New Testament Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / New Testament Studies / PhD / unrestricted

Wong Kin Keung. / Thesis submitted in: December 2004. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-171). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Abbreviations --- p.iv / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1. --- Prelude: the Two Broadly Generalized Theses of Dilthey's Project --- p.9 / Chapter (a) --- Thesis I: Behind Life Thought Cannot Go --- p.11 / Chapter (b) --- Thesis II: To Understand Life in terms of itself --- p.19 / Chapter 2. --- Toward the Original Givenness of Life --- p.25 / Chapter (a) --- Erlebnis as the Nexus of Facts of Consciousness --- p.25 / Chapter (b) --- The Relational Dimension of life --- p.29 / Chapter i) --- the Psychic Structural Nexus of Erlebnis --- p.29 / Chapter ii) --- the Objective World with Respect to Life-concern --- p.32 / Chapter (c) --- The Temporal-dynamic Dimension of Life --- p.36 / Chapter i) --- the Purposive Efficacy and Immanent Teleology --- p.36 / Chapter ii) --- the Temporal Dynamism of Life-course --- p.38 / Chapter 3. --- Toward an Epistemic Hermeneutics --- p.41 / Chapter (a) --- Reflexive Awareness as a kind of Pre-reflective Living-awareness' --- p.41 / Chapter (b) --- Meaning as the Part-whole relation of Life-nexus --- p.45 / Chapter (c) --- The Method of Verstehen --- p.47 / Chapter i) --- from Elementary Forms of Understanding --- p.50 / Chapter ii) --- to Higher Forms of Understanding --- p.52 / Chapter 4. --- Heidegger's Appropriation of Dilthey's Philosophy in KNS 1919 and Early Lecture Courses --- p.61 / Chapter 5. --- The Neo-Kantian Challenges --- p.72 / Chapter 6. --- The Hidden Diltheyan Sources in ´بthe Phenomenological Beginnings' --- p.79 / Chapter (a) --- The Phenomenological Beginnings' --- p.79 / Chapter i) --- Phenomenological disclosure of the sphere of lived experience --- p.79 / Chapter ii) --- The theoretical infringement upon lived experience --- p.87 / Chapter (b) --- The Hidden Diltheyan Sources --- p.94 / Chapter i) --- the immanent teleology of life' in KNS --- p.94 / Chapter ii) --- life and world --- p.97 / Chapter iii) --- self and the existential moments of life --- p.101 / Chapter 7. --- The Hidden Diltheyan Sources in ´بthe Hermeneutic Breakthrough' --- p.113 / Chapter (a) --- The Hermeneutic Breakthrough' --- p.113 / Chapter i) --- the genesis of the theoretical from the pre-theoretical domain of lived experience and the corresponding moments of cognizing --- p.113 / Chapter ii) --- in search of the hermeneutic intuition --- p.117 / Chapter (b) --- The Hidden Diltheyan Sources --- p.121 / Chapter i) --- the structural unity of 'the knowing' and 'the known' --- p.132 / Chapter ii) --- expressive formation of concepts --- p.139 / Chapter iii) --- formal indication --- p.144 / Chapter 8. --- Conclusion --- p.152 / Bibliography --- p.167

The aim of the thesis is to think over the possibilities of the history of literature and some other literature theories in the field of interpretation. The history of literature describes literary texts as historical objects. Although it's a human science, it disregards a human beings and their life-world. It rather categorize technically literary texts into different groups. This approach is purely scientific. The history of literature as many other branches of literary science solves their own abstract problems through the abstract theories which has no aim to interpret the literary text as a specific experience for a reader. The article points out how the scientific approach to the literary text disable to interpret a conrete literary text in the sense for human being. I use phenomenological philosophy as a proposal of another type of approach to the interpretation. Interpretation in the phenomenological sence means that through literary text the interpret seeks to understand our living world. In the other parts I follow the trail of phenomenological philosophy in tradition of Prague structuralism. Especially I focus on specifics of Russian phenomenology, particularly in philosophies of these Russian philosophers which dealed with interpretation of art (namely J. Golosovker, B. Engelgardt, G....

The aim of the thesis is to advert to precarious position of the history of literature and some other literature theories. The history of literature describes literary texts as dead historical objects. Although it's a human science, it disregards a human beings and their life-world. It rather categorize technically literary texts into different groups. This approach is purely scientific. The history of literature as many other branches of literary science solves their own abstract problems through the abstract theories which has no aim to interpret the literary text as a specific experience for a reader. The article points out how the scientific approach to the literary text disable to interpret a conrete literary text in the sense for human being. I use phenomenological philosophy as a proposal of another type of approach to the interpretation. Interpretation in the phenomenological sence means that through literary text the interpret seeks to understand our living world. In the other parts I follow the trail of phenomenological philosophy in tradition of Prague structuralism. Especially I focus on specifics of Russian phenomenology, particularly in philosophies of these Russian philosophers which dealed with interpretation of art (namely J. Golosovker, B. Engelgardt, G. G. Shpet, M. Bakhtin etc.). At the...