The Matter of the Facts - On Invention and Interpretation (Hardcover)

This book questions the presupposition that "interpretation" is the basic problem of language and examines how assumptions about the constructed nature of the object of interpretation affect current discussions about interpretation in the humanities.
The author is not taken by the universalizing claims of hermeneutics that everything is reducible to interpretation, but he is not interested in quarreling directly with those claims either. And with respect to the notion of invention--that things don't simply exist but are produced, made up--he likewise is interested neither in the objections usually brought against it nor in the strength of that notion in resisting them. Instead, he is interested in problematics that emerge from considering interpretation and invention together, as exemplified in close readings of three texts: Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis," Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy," and Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason," texts in which "in very different ways, a recognizable claim is made according to which 'the facts' (biographical in one case, historical in another case, and cognitive in a third case) are produced by their own descriptions and interpretations."
The author sees Wilde's and Nietzsche's texts as inventions gone wrong: Wilde's attempt to invent his own life and Nietzsche's suggestion that one can make up the art of the future. He sees Kant's text as a theory of the roots of invention and discusses it in relation to the production of both facts and knowledge. "The Critique of Pure Reason" is therefore understood as the result of Kant's dissatisfaction with, and constant rediscription of, the problem of invention.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Miguel Tamen
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-3432-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General
LSN:	0-8047-3432-1
Barcode:	9780804734325

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