Is There a Single Right Interpretation? / / Michael Krausz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Krausz, Michael,
• MitwirkendeR: Barnes, Annette,; Davies, Stephen,; Feagin, Susan L.,; Goldman, Alan,; Guignon, Charles,; Gupta, Chhanda,; Hagberg, Garry L.,; Krausz, Michael,; Lamarque, Peter,; Levinson, Jerrold,; Margolis, Joseph,; Martin, Rex,; Mohanty, Jitendranath,; Noeol, Carroll,; Novitz, David,; Percival, Philip,; Pettersson, Torsten,; Stecker, Robert,; Stern, Laurent,; Thom, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 2 illustrations

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, Noël 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1 The Sun Also Rises: Incompatible Interpretations -- 2 ''One and Only One Correct Interpretation'' -- 3 Rightness and Success in Interpretation -- 4 Intentionality, Meaning, and Open-Endedness of Interpretation -- 5 Are There Definitive Interpretations -- PART II -- 6 Against Critical Pluralism -- 7 Interpretation and Its Objects -- 8 Constructive Realism and the Question of Imputation -- 9 Interpretation and the Ontology of Art -- 10 Can Novel Critical Interpretations Create Art Objects Distinct from Themselves -- PART III -- 11 The Literary Work as a Pliable Entity: Combining Realism and Pluralism -- 12 The Multiple Interpretability of Musical Works -- 13 Right Answers: Dworkin's Jurisprudence -- 14 Truth in Interpretation: A Hermeneutic Approach -- 15 Appreciation and Literary Interpretation -- PART IV -- 16 Hypothetical Intentionalism: Statement, Objections, and Replies -- 17 Andy Kaufman and the Philosophy of Interpretation -- 18 Whose Play Is It? Does It Matter -- 19 Tossed Salad: Ontology and Identity -- 20 Wittgenstein and the Question of True Self-Interpretation -- Contributors -- Index