Institution and Interpretation

Expanded Edition

By:

Samuel Weber

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

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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 thus emerges not only as an activity made possible by institutions but as an essential component of their operation. To the book's original nine essays addressing such topics as professionalism in criticism, the relation between psychoanalysis and hermeneutics, and the contemporary situation of the humanities this new edition adds six essays, one of them previously unpublished. Topics discussed include the future of the university and of the humanities, Kierkegaard's notion of repetition, Josiah Royce's conception of a community of interpretation, and the problematic place of reading in reader-response theory.

Author Biography:

Samuel Weber is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the UCLA Paris Program in Critical Theory. Among his many books are The Legend of Freud: Expanded Edition (Stanford, 2000) and Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics, Media (Stanford, 1996).

Release date Australia

October 1st, 2002

Author

Samuel Weber

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

304

Series

Cultural Memory in the Present

Dimensions

153x229x18

ISBN-13

9780804731195

Product ID

5325833

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