Intention vs. Creativity. Ethical dilemma?

• Authors: Szajnert D.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This essay concerns a certain aspect of the ethics of textual interpretation, or rather, to be specific, a relation being key to this ethics, namely, the interpreter's ethics vs. the author's intent relation. Having espoused a 'post-Wittgensteinian', textual-situational, or, institutional-relational situation of intent(ion), the authoress has considered the ethical assumptions and implications of selected pro-intentionist and anti-intentionist approaches (with a particular focus on culturalist interpretationism represented by S. Fish). The context for these considerations is the motif of inventiveness - as a broadly understood, yet always constructivism-confounded, concept. Their starting point is an apprehension of creativity (incl. work, its author, and, primarily, the reader), being referred to the Derrida concept, whereby creativity is approached as a value with a clear ethical characteristic and a demanded counterbalance to limitations (super)imposed on a reading by the author's intention. The arguing under discussion aims at making an afterthought on the benefits ensuing from restraining creativity in favour of intention.

Keywords

EN

CONSTRUCTIVISM; ETHICS OF INTERPRETATION; INTERPRETATIONISM

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 1/2(97/98)
• Pages: 58-86
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szajnert D.

• D. Szajnert, Uniwersytet Lódzki, Instytut Teorii Literatury, Teatru i Filmu, ul. Sienkiewicza 21, 90-114 Lódz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01383094