Interpretation and Its Objects

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.

”Michael Krausz’s influential and important work on interpretation in all its cultural manifestations is the focus of this comprehensive collection of discussion papers. In engaging with Krausz the contributors show the richness, subtlety, and depth of his thinking. There are few guides more percipient and sure-footed in this terrain than Michael Krausz.” – Peter Lamarque, Editor, The British Journal of Aesthetics and Professor of Philosophy, University of York

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsONE Andreea Deciu RITIVOI: IntroductionTWO Michael KRAUSZ: Interpretation and Its Objects: A Synoptic ViewIDEALS AND AIMS OF INTERPRETATIONTHREE Garry HAGBERG: Rightness Reconsidered: Krausz, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Interpretive Understanding FOUR Nirmalangshu MUKHERJI: Is There a General Notion of Interpretation?FIVE David CROCKER: Interpretive Ideals and Truth CommissionsSIX Ken-Ichi SASAKI: Limits of InterpretationSEVEN: Ronald MOORE: Interpretive Ideals and Life ProjectsINTERPRETATION WITHOUT ONTOLOGY?EIGHT Bernard HARRISON and Patricia HANNA: Interpretation and Ontology: Two Queries for KrauszNINE Paul THOM: Constituents of InterpretationTEN Joseph MARGOLIS: Notes on Krausz’s Detachability ThesisELEVEN Michael McKENNA: A Metaphysics for KrauszTWELVE R.C. PRADHAN: How Not to Be a Metaphysical Realist: Krausz on Constructive RealismTHIRTEEN Paul GROBSTEIN: Getting It Less Wrong, The Brain’s Way: Science, Pragmatism, and MultiplismINTERPRETING ACROSS CULTURESFOURTEEN V.A. RAO: Ethnocentrism and the Interpretation of Cultural PracticesFIFTEEN Andreea Deciu RITIVOI: Interpreting Historical Legacies: The Ethos of Transition in Eastern EuropeSIXTEEN Krassimir STOJANOV: Moral Universalism and Cultural Anti-Essentialism: An Extension of Krausz’s Theory of InterpretationSEVENTEEN D.P. CHATTOPADHYAYA: Relativism and the Limits of Human ConsciousnessEXTENSIONS AND APPLICATIONSEIGHTEEN Nancy WESTON: Rightness, Ontology, and the Adjudication of Truth: Adumbrations from the Law’s Trial NINETEEN Nicholas MAXWELL: Art as Its Own InterpretationTWENTY Christoph COX: Versions, Dubs, and Remixes: Realism and Rightness in Aesthetic InterpretationTWENTY-ONE Giridhari LAL PANDIT: The Work and the Pilgrims of MusicTWENTY-TWO Vibha CHATURVEDI: Reflections on the Interpretation of Religious TextsREPLIES AND REFLECTIONSTWENTY-THREE Michael KRAUSZ: Replies and ReflectionsSelected Bibliography of Michael KrauszAbout the ContributorsIndex