The Question of Understanding Otherwise

Claes Entzenberg

ISBN 10: 3631851561 / ISBN 13: 9783631851562

Published by Peter Lang Sep 2021, 2021

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Neuware -Interpretation has historically been understood as a method to shrink the distance between the interpreter and the interpreted. This view has dominated the comprehension of the interpretation of art: it always entails the interpretation of something, and this something must then govern our effort to understand it. If not, we are left with mere subjective whims. This book tries to modify this well-worn view by altering the dualist position to incorporate the very object within the sense-making activity. Interpretation rather becomes the creative making of something different, and this explains why it is deemed unfinished. The notion of ¿re-contextualization¿ covers this in between operation (between work and interpretation), and the very object of interpretation remains just an enabling condition of transference. Interpretation preserves the challenge, by re-making and re-locating meaning. 124 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Question of Understanding Otherwise
• Publisher: Peter Lang Sep 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631851561
• ISBN 13: 9783631851562
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 11D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 283 grams

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Synopsis

Interpretation has historically been understood as a method to shrink the distance between the interpreter and the interpreted. This view has dominated the comprehension of the interpretation of art: it always entails the interpretation of something, and this something must then govern our effort to understand it. If not, we are left with mere subjective whims. This book tries to modify this well-worn view by altering the dualist position to incorporate the very object within the sense-making activity. Interpretation rather becomes the creative making of something different, and this explains why it is deemed unfinished. The notion of "re-contextualization" covers this in between operation (between work and interpretation), and the very object of interpretation remains just an enabling condition of transference. Interpretation preserves the challenge, by re-making and re-locating meaning.

About the Author

Claes Entzenberg is the author of Metaphor as a Mode of Interpretation (1998),
Grounds of Representation (2007), Art from Death Originated (2013), and works on
Literary Theory, Aesthetics and Art. He is associate professor in Aesthetics at Uppsala
University (Sweden).