The Matter of the Facts: On Invention and Interpretation

by Miguel Tamen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804734321
• ISBN13: 9780804734325
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"