‘Reaching out’ beyond the text: philosophical notes

• Main Author: Klyukanov I. E.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University 2019-11-01
• Series: Слово.ру: балтийский акцент
• Subjects: text; semiotics; hermeneutics; philosophy; phenomenology; method; language
• Online Access: https://journals.kantiana.ru/slovo/4344/12826/

In this article, I define the concept of text and briefly discuss the related concepts of speech and discourse. I demonstrate how the humanities treat texts and examine the structur­al-semiotic and the hermeneutic approach. Further, I identify both the differences between these approaches and the similarities in the ways they interpret texts. I argue that the philo­sophical approach seeks to go beyond the text as far as possible without leaving it altogether and stress that the divide between the humani­ties approach and the philosophical approach to the text lies in their methods. I emphasise that language has a synthesizing role within the philosophical approach to the text. Finally, I draw attention to the ‘science of communication’, within which the message as a whole is conceptualized.