HEIDEGGERIAN HERMENEUTICS AND SERBIAN LITTERATURE: OVERVIEW AND PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to consider how we can use the basic ideas of Heidegger’s philosophy of literature in the interpretations of Serbian literature which we understand as all that is written on Serbian language in all it’s variations. Firstly, we mark off and define five fundamental terms of Heidegger’s hermeneutics (metaphysics, subject, poet, poetry, language) and then we search for appropriate examples in various literary epochs (medieval literature, baroque, romantism, symbolism) so we can show it’s complementarity. In the context of that discussion, we tend to show and describe the connection between the hermeneutics, rhetorics and poetry and how it can be understood and used in the humanities. As a result, we have a wider and consistent look on possibilites of implementations of such a hermeneutics in european litterature, and further more, a discovery of various new directions in the interpretations of Serbian literature.