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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krausz, Michael.

Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu, 1970-

Series:

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 146.

Value inquiry book series ; v. 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpretation (Philosophy).

Krausz, Michael--Criticism and interpretation.

Krausz, Michael.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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 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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0932-4

OCLC:

855504868

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401209328 DOI