Umberto Eco's hermeneutics Hermeneutics Blumenberg
basic ideas: 1-There are some (ontological statement) and also we know it (The somewhat presemiósico)
2-Knowing something is an unlimited process of interpretation. Semiotic process (semiosis = action to signs).
3-Theory of the text.
presemiósico Something
This affirms against philosophies that argue that there is only language. Eco believes that there is something prior to language, but not know it. The language is a response to the provocation of something. Discuss the possibility of different interpretations something arises that there is that something. Necessarily have to be a thing to have an order, a theory, etc. Not only is there something to talk about, but also for its meaning there biases that are pre-linguistic: up, down, gobble, expel, walk, sleep, watch, birth, death, possession, artifact, etc .... All these cases (and more) are perceptions qualifying.
presemiósico This makes us something to talk about is the dynamic object. It is dynamic because it is what started it all, that provokes.
Eco has produced an analysis to indicate how an unknown experience forged the concepts and components involved. How that something happens to be semi: 1-Type
cognitive (CT): A set of approximate representations (not definitions) we do from fields known to unknown fields in order to understand (CAPT). Assumed knowledge and are projected to be similar to play something new (a new phenomenon). This is something to integrate the cultural universe available. Content
2-nuclear (CN): socially accepted set of interpretations that bring together a community / culture around a TC. The nuclear contents are public, while the cognitive can be private. Sometimes they may coincide. Is the stabilization of the cultural meaning of objects.
3-Content Encyclopedia (CM): Contents of the Encyclopedia of the term in question in a given society. In a culture there are also particular interpretations, public, contradictory, and so on. The content of the encyclopedia includes all interpretations of a culture. Sectoral divisions arise here (the same object from different perspectives). Includes the distribution of knowledge.
The three processes are involved in making something, something new in the cultural universe (a novelty).
semiotic process
that should be transformed into a dynamic object sign. Everything, in principle, can be converted into a sign. Everything can be converted into a sign does not mean that everything is a sign. Only be significant things from the time they turn them into a sign.
The sign function:
The sign is not a thing, is a function, it must enter a code to get a meaning. It is a sign function because its value can change (the horses will be worth different depending on the code that you're moving, agriculture, economics, biology, etc..). Is a function, too, because its function may be significant or meaning depending on context.
The sign function is always conventional, single and are not accessible (even for small groups or secret). Traits
sign:
1-A sign is something else rather than
2-The sign is materially different from the thing that is a sign.
3-In the sign, the level of expression differs by substance and form, and the same may be implemented in another substance.
4-To have mark must be capable of producing a signic occurrence in relation to a type.
5-The sign can be used to lie or say. Can be used to lie because can produce the sign even if the object does not exist (the sign may have a meaning but there is no meaning: for example, "Unicorn").
multidimensionality of axes in the cultural universe : There are plenty of axes within a culture. The sign function acquires a meaning depending on where you drop shaft. Any sign may be placed on any axis. Theory
text
Application in the study of texts
The text is the universal term, a text is a coherent sequence of sentences, has a plurality that is bonded, there is an order of exposure (a phrase goes after the other). A text can not be contradictory, it must be consistent. The text is an expansion of the minimal meaningful unit, so the minimum element has the potential to become text. Any definition is intertextual. The text has a structure that governs its own development. Text can be an invention because it requires interpretations that are not in the text.
The topic
is the basic attitude of a text that copper makes sense and not another. It is the core of a narrative structure that makes sense copper and not another. The topic highlights the possibilities and the limits of the text, not to break the literary scheme. Possible Worlds
A possible world can be interpreted as a development of events. Eco puts a precondition to these worlds: the necessary reference to "real" world in which we live: no possible world is completely independent of the world really lived by the reader or author.
textual interpretation
The empirical Author (The undersigned, if thin, tall, blond or the place where it is) has nothing to do with the meaning of the work. So does the reader, the empirical reader (if you're tired, is thin ...) has nothing to do with semiotics.
The model author is the set of strategies (where's explicit intention of the work) that serve to take the reader (for reading condition). Sometimes the strategy is to unite parts of the work. The author's model is the work itself structured in a way.
The intention of the author (surprise people, make money ...) is not part of the work the intention of the work is what matters, what it intends to work regardless of the perpetrator. The reader should deal only with the intention of the work. A book is organized by reading strategies (Author model).
The model reader is the alternative to the model author, is one that is guided and follows the guidelines of the structure of the work.
In an interpretation should disregard the reader and the author's empirical and move into the scheme of the author and the reader a model, although it never has an equal and full agreement between the two. Interpretation is inevitable:
1-Because the universe of the author does not match 100% of the reader. They have different encyclopedias, but agree on some things.
2-For all the elements of the encyclopedia may vary in meaning depending on the shaft in which they are located. The signs are ambiguous.
3-Because nobody has all the encyclopedia in his head.
interpretations of a work are endless.
interpretative concept of restriction
This endlessness of interpretation has its limits, the model reader has to follow the guidelines will mark the model author. Can not do with the work that you want. The "something" or "being" spoken texts imposes limits on the interpretation. There is therefore interpretations "prohibited."
Although there are endless interpretations are some better than others: those that will best collect more from the text and grouped by topic (for example). Interpretation is qualitatively evaluated.