Is There a Single Right Interpretation? /

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

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 e...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 2 illustrations
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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

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