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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495889603321

Autore

Margolis Joseph <1924->

Titolo

Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly : The New Puzzle of the Arts and History / / Joseph Margolis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

0-520-91514-3

0-585-09896-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 312 p. )

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

Art and history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Reinterpreting Interpretation -- 2. Interpretation at Risk -- 3. Prospects for a Theory of Radical History -- 4. Puzzles of Pictorial Representation -- 5. Textuality and Intertextuality -- 6. History and Fiction -- 7. Interpretation and Self-Understanding -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. Here he applies this doctrine to Western theories of history and the interpretation of cultural phenomena--offering the first sustained analysis of the logic, methodology, and metaphysics of interpretation committed to a thoroughgoing relativism and the historicized structure of cultural phenomena. Versed in Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, Margolis draws on the best views of Western philosophy to investigate a topic regularly ignored in that tradition. The result is the surprising synthesis of two historically antipathetic approaches to philosophy.