Format:
1 Online-Ressource (223 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780226614144
Content:
“Interpretation” is a term that encompasses both the most esoteric and the most fundamental activities of our lives, from analyzing medical images to the million ways we perceive other people’s actions. Today, we also leave interpretation to the likes of web cookies, social media algorithms, and automated markets. But as John Frow shows in this thoughtfully argued book, there is much yet to do in clarifying how we understand the social organization of interpretation. On Interpretive Conflict delves into four case studies where sharply different sets of values come into play—gun control, anti-Semitism, the religious force of images, and climate change. In each case, Frow lays out the way these controversies unfold within interpretive regimes that establish what counts as an interpretable object and the protocols of evidence and proof that should govern it. Whether applied to a Shakespeare play or a Supreme Court case, interpretation, he argues, is at once rule-governed and inherently conflictual. Ambitious and provocative, On Interpretive Conflict will attract readers from across the humanities and beyond
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Institutions of Interpretation -- 1. Reading with Guns: District of Columbia v. Heller -- 2. Contract, Custom, and the Multiple Historicities of The Merchant of Venice -- 3. Icon, Iconoclasm, Presence -- 4. Construing Climate Change -- Coda: Interpretation and Judgment -- Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226613956
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226614007
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Frow, John, 1948 - On interpretive conflict Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019 ISBN 9780226614007
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226613956
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
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Interpretation
DOI:
10.7208/9780226614144
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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