Author : Joseph Margolis
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 2001-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780631220473
This is a lively, freshly invited collection of papers by a number of well-known philosophers and other specialists who have focused very pointedly on certain central conceptual puzzles posed by the general practice of interpretation in the arts, literature, history, and the natural and human sciences. The collection gives very nearly the impression of a sustained debate.
Author : Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401209324
This volume collects twenty-one original essays that discuss Michael Krausz’s distinctive and provocative contribution to the theory of interpretation. At the beginning of the book Krausz offers a synoptic review of his central claims, and he concludes with a substantive essay that replies to scholars from the United States, England, Germany, India, Japan, and Australia. Krausz’s philosophical work centers around a distinction that divides interpreters of cultural achievements into two groups. Singularists assume that for any object of interpretation only one single admissible interpretation can exist. Multiplists assume that for some objects of interpretation more than one interpretation is admissible. A central question concerns the ontological entanglements involved in interpretive activity. Domains of application include works of art and music, as well as literary, historical, legal and religious texts. Further topics include truth commissions, ethnocentrism and interpretations across cultures.
Author : Gianni Vattimo
Publisher : Polity
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1997-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745617534
This book by one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers is a concise and lucidly argued account of the meaning of hermeneutics for philosophy today. Vattimo argues that hermeneutics, understood in a general sense, has had a pervasive influence on contemporary philosophy and social thought. But its very generality is also a symptom of its malaise, for it threatens to leave hermeneutics empty of significance and wedded to a shallow relativism. In response to this danger, Vattimo proposes a radicalization of the relation of hermeneutics to its own historical roots in modernity and a rethinking of the relation between hermeneutics and nihilism - which involves, in Vattimo's account, a weakening of the strong structures of being, reality, subjectivity and above all, truth. Vattimo develops a new interpretation of hermeneutics that dispenses with the traditional bias toward aesthetic experience. His radical interpretation breaks the link between hermeneutics and metaphysical humanism, challenges the traditional opposition of the natural and human sciences, and opens new perspectives on ethics, art and religion. Beyond Interpretation will be welcomed by students and researchers in philosophy and social theory.
Author : Eric Dayton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 1999-02-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 155111190X
Art and Interpretation is a comprehensive anthology of readings on aesthetics. Its aim is to present fundamental philosophical issues in such a way as to create a common vocabulary for those from diverse backgrounds to communicate meaningfully about aesthetic issues. To that end, the editor has provided selections from a wide variety of challenging works in aesthetic theory, both classical and modern. The approach is often cross-disciplinary. Within the discipline of philosophy it seeks to balance readings from the analytic tradition with continental European, hermeneutical postmodern (including deconstructionist), and feminist readings. The anthology is thus broadly conceived, but by grouping the readings into sections such as ‘Expression and Aesthetic object,’ ‘Psychology and Interpretation,’ ‘Marxist Theory,’ and ‘Culture, Gender, and Difference,’ it aims as well to provide depth of coverage for each topic or issue. The book opens with a historical section containing substantial selections from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Shelley and Nietzsche; these readings introduce themes that recur and are developed in the remainder of the anthology.
Author : William Irwin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742551756
Containing thirteen articles, this book makes the case to philosophers that popular culture is worthy of their attention. It considers popular art forms such as movies, television shows, comic books, children's stories, photographs, and rock songs.
Author : Bernard Flynn
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810121069
This study of Claude Lefort offers an account of Lefort's accomplishment - its unique merits, its relation to political philosophy within the Continental tradition, and its great relevance today.
Author : Karl Löwith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1949
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226495552
The theological implications of the philosophy of history, traced through the works of Buckhardt, Marx, Hegel, Proudhon, Comte, Condorcet, Turgot, Voltaire, Vico, Bossuet, Joachim, Augustine, Orosius and the Bible.
Author : Dirk-Martin Grube
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004325247
Interpretation and Meaning in Philosophy and Religion synthesizes cutting-edge philosophical reflections on interpretation with their application to religion. For this, new theoretical insights on interpretation by Krausz, Lamarque, Leddy, Hagberg, and Gibson are examined. Topics cover multiplism (i.e. interpretative pluralism), the goal of interpretation and its starting point. These concepts are then studied in relation to the practice of interpreting religious texts. For example, Grube proposes that the action-relevance of religious interpretations limits the possibility of tolerating divergent interpretations, Karrer-Grube challenges Lamarque’s insistence on a firm starting point, and Gokhale challenges Krausz by arguing that Vedantic practices of interpretation are non-multiplist.
Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438441770
A provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories.
Author : Paul Ricœur
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Hermeneutics
ISBN : 9780300011654
This book is a discussion or debate with Freud. Today we are in search of a comprehensive philosophy of language to account for the multiple functions of the human act of signifying and for their interrelationships.
