LINGUISTICS HERMENEUTICS VALIDITY IN INTERPRETATION ED HIRSCH THEORY PHILOSOPHY

Description: Validity in Interpretationby Eric D. HirschPublished by Yale University Press, 1967. Second printing. Very good hardcover, in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. 8vo, index, 287 pages. “Here is a book that brings logic to the most unruly of disciplines, literary interpretation. . . . This study is a necessary took for anyone who wants to talk sense about literature.”—Virginia Quarterly ReviewBy demonstrating the uniformity and universality of the principles of valid interpretation of verbal texts of any sort, this closely reasoned examination provides a theoretical foundation for a discipline that is fundamental to virtually all humanistic studies. It defines the grounds on which textual interpretation can claim to establish objective knowledge, defends that claim against such skeptical attitudes as historicism and psychologism, and shows that many confusions can be avoided if the distinctions between meaning and significance, interpretation and criticism are correctly understood. Validity in Interpretation is a groundbreaking book of literary hermeneutics with application to all areas of literature. It will shape the way you look at interpretation of Scripture, or any written document. Hirsch provides a useful set of concepts for literary interpretation and passionately and convincingly argues for his position. The book is an early attack on the nonsense of Derrida and Foucault (and their ilk) and the fashionable literary follies of our day. He makes a vital distinction between "meaning and "significance." Meaning ultimately is dependent on authorial intent. A written document can only MEAN what the author intended it to mean. The author may have been unskilled or even incompetent in presenting his/her ideas, but the meaning forever remains what it meant at creation. Significance, however, is the personal, social, and cultural context in which any reader's reaction to the written text takes place. A given written text may have a significance for an individual or community which goes beyond the original author's intent. This significance may, in some sense, have no direct connection to original intent. It remains valid as "significance" but not as "meaning." Hirsch's approach would also be valuable in the area of legal interpretation. A Hirschian analysis of the constitution or the laws would focus on the original intent of the Framers or authors of legislation. It would totally undercut the idea of a "living" constitution. This book is very technical, and a hard read. Nevertheless, it will pay great dividends in learning to the careful reader. Loc: B2-3StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackLINGUISTICS HERMENEUTICS VALIDITY IN INTERPRETATION ED HIRSCH THEORY PHILOSOPHY Validity in Interpretationby Eric D. HirschPublished by Yale University Press, 1967. Second printing. Very good hardcover, in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. 8vo, index, 287 pages. “Here is a book that brings logic to the most unruly of disciplines, literary interpretation. . . . This study is a necessary took for anyone who wants to talk sense about literature.”—Virginia Quarterly ReviewBy demonstrating the uniformity and universality of the principles of valid interpretation of verbal texts of any sort, this closely reasoned examination provides a theoretical foundation for a discipline that is fundamental to virtually all humanistic studies. It defines the grounds on which textual interpretation can claim to establish objective knowledge, defends that claim against such skeptical attitudes as historicism and psychologism, and shows that many confusions can be avoided if the distinctions between meaning and significance, interpretation and criticism are correctly understood. Validity in Interpretation is a groundbreaking book of literary hermeneutics with application to all areas of literature. It will shape the way you look at interpretation of Scripture, or any written document. Hirsch provides a useful set of concepts for literary interpretation and passionately and convincingly argues for his position. The book is an early attack on the nonsense of Derrida and Foucault (and their ilk) and the fashionable literary follies of our day. He makes a vital distinction between "meaning and "significance." Meaning ultimately is dependent on authorial intent. A written document can only MEAN what the author intended it to mean. The author may have been unskilled or even incompetent in presenting his/her ideas, but the meaning forever remains what it meant at creation. Significance, however, is the personal, social, and cultural context in which any reader's reaction to the written text takes place. A given written text may have a significance for an individual or community which goes beyond the original author's intent. This significance may, in some sense, have no direct connection to original intent. It remains valid as "significance" but not as "meaning." Hirsch's approach would also be valuable in the area of legal interpretation. A Hirschian analysis of the constitution or the laws would focus on the original intent of the Framers or authors of legislation. It would totally undercut the idea of a "living" constitution. This book is very technical, and a hard read. Nevertheless, it will pay great dividends in learning to the careful reader. Loc: B2-3

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