Interpretation and its objects : : studies in the philosophy of Michael Krausz / / edited with an introduction by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi.

• TeilnehmendeR: Krausz, Michael.; Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu, 1970-
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; v. 146; Value Inquiry Book Series ; 146.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (399 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- ONE Andreea Deciu RITIVOI: Introduction -- TWO Michael KRAUSZ: Interpretation and Its Objects: A Synoptic View -- IDEALS AND AIMS OF INTERPRETATION -- THREE Garry HAGBERG: Rightness Reconsidered: Krausz, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Interpretive Understanding -- FOUR Nirmalangshu MUKHERJI: Is There a General Notion of Interpretation? -- FIVE David CROCKER: Interpretive Ideals and Truth Commissions -- SIX Ken-Ichi SASAKI: Limits of Interpretation -- SEVEN: Ronald MOORE: Interpretive Ideals and Life Projects -- INTERPRETATION WITHOUT ONTOLOGY? -- EIGHT Bernard HARRISON and Patricia HANNA: Interpretation and Ontology: Two Queries for Krausz -- NINE Paul THOM: Constituents of Interpretation -- TEN Joseph MARGOLIS: Notes on Krausz's Detachability Thesis -- ELEVEN Michael McKENNA: A Metaphysics for Krausz -- TWELVE R.C. PRADHAN: How Not to Be a Metaphysical Realist: Krausz on Constructive Realism -- THIRTEEN Paul GROBSTEIN: Getting It Less Wrong, The Brain's Way: Science, Pragmatism, and Multiplism -- INTERPRETING ACROSS CULTURES -- FOURTEEN V.A. RAO: Ethnocentrism and the Interpretation of Cultural Practices -- FIFTEEN Andreea Deciu RITIVOI: Interpreting Historical Legacies: The Ethos of Transition in Eastern Europe -- SIXTEEN Krassimir STOJANOV: Moral Universalism and Cultural Anti-Essentialism: An Extension of Krausz's Theory of Interpretation -- SEVENTEEN D.P. CHATTOPADHYAYA: Relativism and the Limits of Human Consciousness -- EXTENSIONS AND APPLICATIONS -- EIGHTEEN Nancy WESTON: Rightness, Ontology, and the Adjudication of Truth: Adumbrations from the Law's Trial -- NINETEEN Nicholas MAXWELL: Art as Its Own Interpretation -- TWENTY Christoph COX: Versions, Dubs, and Remixes: Realism and Rightness in Aesthetic Interpretation -- TWENTY-ONE Giridhari LAL PANDIT: The Work and the Pilgrims of Music -- TWENTY-TWO Vibha CHATURVEDI: Reflections on the Interpretation of Religious Texts -- REPLIES AND REFLECTIONS -- TWENTY-THREE Michael KRAUSZ: Replies and Reflections -- Selected Bibliography of Michael Krausz -- About the Contributors -- Index.