Institution and interpretation / Samuel Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Samuel, 1940-

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Physical Description:

xix, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2001]

Summary:

This book investigates the forces that shape and limit interpretive practices. Weber suggests that institutions are never entirely free of the necessity of consolidating their authority through an ambivalent process of reinstituting themselves, a process in which interpretation plays a crucial role.

Contents:

1. Closure and Exclusion 3

2. The Limits of Professionalism 18

3. The Debt of Criticism: Notes on Stanley Fish's Is There a Text in This Class? 33

4. Capitalizing History: The Political Unconscious 40

5. The Critics' Choice 59

6. The Blindness of the Seeing Eye: Psychoanalysis, Hermeneutics, Entstellung 73

7. Reading and Writing

chez Derrida 85

8. The Debts of Deconstruction and Other, Related Assumptions 102

9. Ambivalence: The Humanities and the Study of Literature 132

10. How Not to Stop Worrying 153

11. Saussure and the Apparition of Language: The Critical Perspective 161

12. Caught in the Act of Reading 180

13. The Vaulted Eye: Remarks on Knowledge and Professionalism 207

14. The Future of the University: The Cutting Edge 220

15. The Future of the Humanities: Experimenting 236.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index.

ISBN:

0804731187

0804731195

OCLC:

45992338