Institution and Interpretation: Expanded Edition

by Samuel Weber and Samuel Weber

Book Overview

Institution and Interpretation investigates the forces that shape and limit interpretive practices. Whereas the prevailing use of the term institutions tends to reduce their role to that of maintaining the status quo, Weber suggests that institutions are never entirely free of the need to consolidate their authority through an ambivalent process of reinstituting themselves, a process in which interpretation plays a crucial role. Interpretation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731195
• ISBN13: 9780804731195
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"