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

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 392 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Value inquiry book series ; v. 146
Value inquiry book series ; v. 146.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ONE Introduction; TWO Interpretation and Its Objects: A Synoptic View; IDEALS AND AIMS OF INTERPRETATION; THREE Rightness Reconsidered: Krausz, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Interpretive Understanding; FOUR Is There a General Notion of Interpretation?; FIVE Interpretive Ideals and Truth Commissions; SIX Limits of Interpretation; SEVEN Interpretive Ideals and Life Projects; INTERPRETATION WITHOUT ONTOLOGY?; EIGHT Interpretation and Ontology: Two Queries for Krausz; NINE Constituents of Interpretation.
TEN Notes on Krausz's Detachability ThesisELEVEN A Metaphysics for Krausz; TWELVE How Not to Be a Metaphysical Realist: Krausz on Constructive Realism; THIRTEEN Getting It Less Wrong, The Brain's Way: Science, Pragmatism, and Multiplism; INTERPRETING ACROSS CULTURES; FOURTEEN Ethnocentrism and the Interpretation ofCultural Practices; FIFTEEN Interpreting Historical Legacies: The Ethos of Transition in Eastern Europe; SIXTEEN Moral Universalism and Cultural Anti-Essentialism: An Extension ofKrausz's Theory of Interpretation; SEVENTEEN Relativism and the Limits of Human Consciousness.
EXTENSIONS AND APPLICATIONSEIGHTEEN Rightness, Ontology, and the Adjudication of Truth: Adumbrations from the Law's Trial; NINETEEN Art as Its Own Interpretation; TWENTY Versions, Dubs, and Remixes: Realism andRightness in Aesthetic Interpretation; TWENTY-ONE The Work and the Pilgrims of Music; TWENTY-ONE Reflections on the Interpretation of Religious Texts; REPLIES AND REFLECTIONS; TWENTY-THREE Replies and Reflections; Selected Bibliography of Michael Krausz; About the Contributors; Index.
Summary 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 c.
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Subject Krausz, Michael -- Criticism and interpretation.
Krausz, Michael.
Criticism and interpretation.
Krausz, Michael (Philosoph)
Interpretation (Philosophy)
Interpretation (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Krausz, Michael.
Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu, 1970-
Other Form: Print version: Interpretation and its objects. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2003 904201167X (OCoLC)53805631
ISBN 9789401209328 (electronic book)
9401209324 (electronic book)
904201167X
9789042011670