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Summary
This book presents contemporary analyses of interpretation by some of the most prominent figures in contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. These essays question and transform traditional statements on the aims, methods, and techniques of interpretation.
The essays demonstrate how contemporary discussions of interpretation are necessarily sent back to the hermeneutic tradition. Emphasizing the importance of Friedrich Nietzsche's influence on the contemporary debates concerning current interpretive practices, this volume traces the differences in interpretive perspectives generated in the writings of Michel Foucault, Eric Blondel, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Manfred Frank, Werner Hamacher, and Jean-Luc Nancy. The essays by Foucault, Blondel, Frank, Hamacher, and Nancy appear here for the first time in English.
Gayle L. Ormiston is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University. Alan D. Schrift is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editors' Introduction
1. Interpretation
Friedrich Nietzsche
2. Nietzsche, Freud, Marx
Michel Foucault
3. Interpreting Texts With and Without Nietzsche
Eric Blondel
4. Psychoanalysis and the Polis
Julia Kristeva
5. Sending: On Representation
Jacques Derrida
6. Derrida on Representation: A Postscript
Peter Caws
7. The Interpretation of a Text
Manfred Frank
8. Hermeneutic Ellipses: Writing the Hermeneutical Circle in Schleiermacher
