Intentionalist Interpretation

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 031331151X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Intentionalist Interpretation by : William Irwin

Download or read book Intentionalist Interpretation written by William Irwin and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tension between the roles of authorial intention and the text itself is a basic concern of contemporary hermeneutics. Challenging much of the current thinking in the field, this volume argues that the text itself, in its various forms, is an untenable criterion for correct interpretation, and through compelling moral and epistemological arguments defends an intentionalist approach to interpretation. After discussing the shortcomings of earlier intentionalist theories, Irwin proposes a new, normative approach, urinterpretation, which is based on an author construct, the urauthor, that includes several elements traditionally seen as separate from the author. The book closes with a theoretical application of intentionalism to philosophical, literary, and legal texts.

Intention Interpretation

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Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439905940
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Book Synopsis Intention Interpretation by : Gary Iseminger

Download or read book Intention Interpretation written by Gary Iseminger and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an excellent and comprehensive discussion of a debate that was initiated in this century in William Wimsatt's and Monroe C. Beardsley's influential article 'The Intentional Fallacy.'...this is a splendidly conceived and very useful collection of essays. Readers will want to take issue with the arguments of individual authors, but this is to be expected in a volume at the cutting edge of a fertile philosophical controversy." --David Novitz, The Philosophical Quarterly "What is the connection, if any, between the author's intentions in (while) writing a work of literature and the truth (acceptability, validity) of interpretive statements about it?" With this question, Gary Isminger introduces a literary debate that has been waged for the past four decades and is addressed by philosophers and literary theorists in Intention and Interpretation. Thirteen essays discuss the role of appeals to the author's intention in interpreting works of literature. A well-known argument by E.D. Hirsch serves as the basic text, in which he defends the appeal to the author's intention against Wimsatt and Beardsley's claim that such an appeal involved "the intentional fallacy." The essays, mostly commissioned by the editor, explore the presuppositions and consequences of arguing for the importance of the author's intentions in the way Hirsch does. Connections emerge between this issue and many fundamental issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind as well as in aesthetics. The (old) "New Criticism" and current Post-Structuralism tend to agree in disenfranchising the author, and many people now are disinclined even to consider the alternative. Hirsch demurs, and arguments like his deserve the careful attention, both from critics and sympathizers, that they receive here. Literary scholars and philosophers who are sympathetic to Continental as well as to Anglo-American styles of philosophy are among the contributors. "This is a timely book appearing as it does when postmodernist views of the death of the author are disappearing quickly from the scene. As a collection it exemplifies the best work that is being done on this problem at the moment, and it will no doubt inspire further debate." --The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism "[T]his volume contains important articles illuminating the central debate over the role and relevance of authorial intentions in literary interoperation." --British Journal of Aesthetics

Relativism and Intentionalism in Interpretation

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739150820
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Relativism and Intentionalism in Interpretation by : Kalle Puolakka

Download or read book Relativism and Intentionalism in Interpretation written by Kalle Puolakka and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of the relativity of interpretations and the relevance of the author's intentions for interpretation has been at the center of controversy for the past century in different philosophical traditions, but there has been very little effort to examine the different ways this question has been addressed in contemporary philosophy within the space of a single book. Relativism and Intentionalism in Interpretation. Davidson, Hermeneutics, and Pragmatism brings diverse philosophical viewpoints to bear on these issues, addressing them through analytic philosophy, hermeneutics, and pragmatism. Kalle Puolakka develops a view of interpretation drawing on Donald Davidson's late philosophy of language and mind defending the role of authorial intentions against criticisms intentionalist views have received particularly in hermeneutics and pragmatism. In addition to relativism and intentionalism, the book discusses such issues as the role of imagination and aesthetic experience in interpretation, and it presents a thorough critique of hermeneutic conceptions of interpretation which emphasize the essential historical nature of our understanding. Relativism and Intentionalism in Interpretation shows how it is possible to combine a pluralistic attitude towards art without resurrecting the role of the author's intentions in interpretation.

Beyond Aesthetics

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521786560
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Book Synopsis Beyond Aesthetics by : Noël Carroll

Download or read book Beyond Aesthetics written by Noël Carroll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.

Intentionalist Interpretation

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Publisher : Praeger
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Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Intentionalist Interpretation by : William Irwin

Download or read book Intentionalist Interpretation written by William Irwin and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-12-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tension between the roles of authorial intention and the text itself is a basic concern of contemporary hermeneutics. Challenging much of the current thinking in the field, this volume argues that the text itself, in its various forms, is an untenable criterion for correct interpretation, and through compelling moral and epistemological arguments defends an intentionalist approach to interpretation. After discussing the shortcomings of earlier intentionalist theories, Irwin proposes a new, normative approach, urinterpretation, which is based on an author construct, the urauthor, that includes several elements traditionally seen as separate from the author. The book closes with a theoretical application of intentionalism to philosophical, literary, and legal texts.

Is There a Single Right Interpretation?

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271046983
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (469 download)

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Book Synopsis Is There a Single Right Interpretation? by : Michael Krausz

Download or read book Is There a Single Right Interpretation? written by Michael Krausz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a single right interpretation for such cultural phenomena as works of literature, visual artworks, works of music, the self, and legal and sacred texts? In these essays, almost all written especially for this volume, twenty leading philosophers pursue different answers to this question by examining the nature of interpretation and its objects and ideals. The fundamental conflict between positions that universally require the ideal of a single admissible interpretation (singularism) and those that allow a multiplicity of some admissible interpretations (multiplism) leads to a host of engrossing questions explored in these essays: Does multiplism invite interpretive anarchy? Can opposing interpretations be jointly defended? Should competition between contending interpretations be understood in terms of (bivalent) truth or (multivalent) reasonableness, appropriateness, aptness, or the like? Is interpretation itself an essentially contested concept? Does interpretive activity seek truth or aim at something else as well? Should one focus on interpretive acts rather than interpretations? Should admissible interpretations be fixed by locating intentions of a historical or hypothetical creator, or neither? What bearing does the fact of the historical situatedness of cultural entities have on their identities? The contributors are Annette Barnes, No&ël Carroll, Stephen Davies, Susan Feagin, Alan Goldman, Charles Guignon, Chhanda Gupta, Garry Hagberg, Michael Krausz, Peter Lamarque, Jerrold Levinson, Joseph Margolis, Rex Martin, Jitendra Mohanty, David Novitz, Philip Percival, Torsten Pettersson, Robert Stecker, Laurent Stern, and Paul Thom.

Constitutional Law and Its Interpretation

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815313991
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Constitutional Law and Its Interpretation by : Jules L. Coleman

Download or read book Constitutional Law and Its Interpretation written by Jules L. Coleman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interpreting Law and Literature

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810107939
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Book Synopsis Interpreting Law and Literature by : Sanford Levinson

Download or read book Interpreting Law and Literature written by Sanford Levinson and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface: "Contemporary theory has usefully analyzed how alternative modes of interpretation produce different meanings, how reading itself is constituted by the variable perspectives of readers, and how these perspectives are in turn defined by prejudices, ideologies, interests, and so forth. Some theorists gave argued persuasively that textual meaning, in literature and in literary interpretation, is structured by repression and forgetting, by what the literary or critical text does not say as much as by what it does. All these claims are directly relevant to legal hermeneutics, and thus it is no surprise that legal theorists have recently been turning to literary theory for potential insight into the interpretation of law. This collection of essays is designed to represent the especially rich interactive that has taken place between legal and literary hermeneutics during the past ten years."

Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520049864
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Book Synopsis Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory by : Steven Seidman

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Moral Aspects of Legal Theory

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521438353
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Book Synopsis Moral Aspects of Legal Theory by : David Lyons

Download or read book Moral Aspects of Legal Theory written by David Lyons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Professor Lyons outlines his fundamental views about the nature of law and its relation to morality and justice.

Literary Intention, Literary Interpretations, and Readers

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Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551118971
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Book Synopsis Literary Intention, Literary Interpretations, and Readers by : John Maynard

Download or read book Literary Intention, Literary Interpretations, and Readers written by John Maynard and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible, personal, and provocative study returns to the major subject in literary discussion before and during the relatively recent flourishing of literary theory, that of literary intention. Does the author’s personal intention or historical site determine a correct interpretation of a literary work? Probing the entire range of issues connected with this many-faceted and knotty concept, this book engages with interpretation on both theoretical and practical levels. It argues that the hard questions about interpretation connected to issues of intention cannot be sidestepped or ignored. It does not argue for conservative concepts of literature itself, nor against the major historical engagements of critics in our time. But in addressing those who continue to read or teach literature, it does insist on a level of sophistication in issues of literary interpretation that cannot be assured by historical research and knowledge of the social and cultural connections to literary works. The overall aim of the work is to recall readers to the great complexity, pleasure, and interest of literary interpretation.

Minerva's Night Out

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118322983
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Minerva's Night Out written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minerva’s Night Out presents series of essays by noted philosopher and motion picture and media theorist Noël Carroll that explore issues at the intersection of philosophy, motion pictures, and popular culture. Presents a wide-ranging series of essays that reflect on philosophical issues relating to modern film and popular culture Authored by one of the best known philosophers dealing with film and popular culture Written in an accessible manner to appeal to students and scholars Coverage ranges from the philosophy of Halloween to Vertigo and the pathologies of romantic love

Moral Combat

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521642248
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Moral Combat by : Heidi Hurd

Download or read book Moral Combat written by Heidi Hurd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puts forward the argument that the law cannot require us to do what morality forbids.

Ordinary Meaning

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630485X
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Book Synopsis Ordinary Meaning by : Brian G. Slocum

Download or read book Ordinary Meaning written by Brian G. Slocum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian G. Slocum's Ordinary Meaning offers an extended legal-linguistic analysis of the eponymous interpretive doctrine. A centuries-old consensus exists among courts and legal scholars that words in legal texts should be interpreted in light of accepted standards of communication. Therefore the questions of what makes some meaning the ordinary one, and how the determinants of ordinary meaning are identified and conceptualized, are of crucial importance to the interpretation of legal texts. Arguing against reliance on acontextual dictionary definitions, Ordinary Meaning rigorously explores the contributions that specific context makes to meaning, along with linguistic phenomena such as indexicals and quantifiers. Slocum provides a theory and a robust general framework for how the determinants of ordinary meaning should be identified and developed.

In Defence of Literary Interpretation

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349184470
Total Pages : 253 pages
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Book Synopsis In Defence of Literary Interpretation by : Ken M Newton

Download or read book In Defence of Literary Interpretation written by Ken M Newton and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-10-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107070724
Total Pages : 343 pages
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Book Synopsis Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency by : George Pavlakos

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Hitler's Death Squads

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442850
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis Hitler's Death Squads by : Helmut Langerbein

Download or read book Hitler's Death Squads written by Helmut Langerbein and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After the war, the German government investigated 1,770 former Einsatzgruppen members and brought 136 of these men to trial. Helmut Langerbein has systematically examined the trial evidence in search of characteristics shared by these mass murderers. Using a much broader data base than earlier studies, Langerbein identifies a number of factors that could explain their actions, illustrating each with a particular person or group of officers." "Given the extent of its data, its detailed analysis and its careful conclusions, Hitler's Death Squads: The Logic of Mass Murder will push historians and psychologists toward a reappraisal of the Nazi killing machine, the behavior of the men behind the battle lines, and the overwhelming power of circumstances."--Jacket.