Interpretation and Its Objects.: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz
RITIVOI, Andreea Deciu
Jan 2003 · Value Inquiry Book Series Book 146 · Rodopi
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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.
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ANDREEA DECIU RITIVOI is Assistant Professor of English and Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University. She has published a book on immigration and identity (Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity, 2002), and is currently finishing a book on subjectivity and action in Paul Ricoeur's philosophy. Her research focuses on personal identity and social transformation, cross-cultural hermeneutics, transitional societies in Eastern Europe, and the dynamics of individual and collective memory.
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