Rightness and Reasons : Interpretation in Cultural Practices / Michael Krausz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krausz, Michael, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Hermeneutics.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.) : 2 b&w illustrations, 9 line drawings

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Must there be a single right interpretation of a particular cultural entity? In his book Michael Krausz considers this question in such representative cultural practices as music, visual art, history, and cross-cultural understanding.Krausz advances two main theses. First, he argues, the notion that there must be a single right interpretation in cultural practices-the "singularist" view-is misplaced. Without acceding to an interpretive anarchism, he embraces the "multiplist" view that cultural practices characteristically allow a multiplicity of ideally admissible interpretations. In his discussion Krausz critically outlines the maneuvers available to both singularists and multiplists.Second, Krausz notes that singularists characteristically construe their objects-of-interpretation along realist lines, and multiplists along constructionist lines.But, he argues, these associations are not necessary: the singularist condition is not guaranteed by realism, nor the multiplist by constructionism. Krausz holds that the question of interpretive ideals is detachable from the dispute between realists and constructionists.Addressing topics of intense concern within mainstream analytic philosophy and in many other areas of cultural investigation, Rightness and Reasons will berewarding reading for aestheticians, musicologists, art historians, literary theorists, historiographers, and anthropologists.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Interpretation in Cultural Practices

1. Rightness and Reasons in Musical lntrepretation

2. Cultural Practices and the Ideals of Interpretation: Singularism and Multiplism

3. Imputational Interpretation in Art, Poetry, Persons, and Cultures

4. Imputation and the Comparison of Interpretations

Part II. Interpretation without Ontology

5. Objects-of- Interpretation and Their Indeterminacy

6. Historical Interpretation without Ontology

7. Praxial Ideality without Ontological Realism

Conclusion

Appendix: From an Interview with a Luo Medicineman

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781501744563

1501744569

OCLC:

1129184121