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- catalog abstract "For contemporary pragmatists, the study of literature supports the development of liberal, pluralist societies. As the product of multiple interpretive communities, works of literature promote cultural diversity, strengthen the expresssion of human agents' beliefs and values, and emphasize the ordinary rather than the theoretical context of interpretive practices. But what exactly is the relationship between pragmatism and theories of textuality in the literary disciplines? Pragmatists embrace the concept of textuality but do not concede that textuality changes anything about how we interpret literature in specific social contexts. Gary Wihl argues for the first time that theories of textuality contain an important expressivist philosophy of language that has been overlooked by pragmatists. According to Wihl, expressivism enriches the pragmatist concept of interpretive communities by focusing on forms of language that shape personhood and cultural value. Highly textual theories like deconstruction can refine and enhance the expressivist element in works of literature. Wihl offers the first direct comparison and synthesis of writings by Stanley Cavell, Paul de Man, Stanley Fish, and Charles Taylor. Brought together in this book, pragmatism, expressivism, and deconstruction restore the philosophical importance of literature by according it a formative role in the definition of human selves.".
- catalog contributor b5729364.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "For contemporary pragmatists, the study of literature supports the development of liberal, pluralist societies. As the product of multiple interpretive communities, works of literature promote cultural diversity, strengthen the expresssion of human agents' beliefs and values, and emphasize the ordinary rather than the theoretical context of interpretive practices. But what exactly is the relationship between pragmatism and theories of textuality in the literary disciplines?".
- catalog description "Gary Wihl argues for the first time that theories of textuality contain an important expressivist philosophy of language that has been overlooked by pragmatists. According to Wihl, expressivism enriches the pragmatist concept of interpretive communities by focusing on forms of language that shape personhood and cultural value. Highly textual theories like deconstruction can refine and enhance the expressivist element in works of literature.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Pragmatists embrace the concept of textuality but do not concede that textuality changes anything about how we interpret literature in specific social contexts.".
- catalog description "Wihl offers the first direct comparison and synthesis of writings by Stanley Cavell, Paul de Man, Stanley Fish, and Charles Taylor. Brought together in this book, pragmatism, expressivism, and deconstruction restore the philosophical importance of literature by according it a formative role in the definition of human selves.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Philosophies of Language without Foundations. 1. Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Deconstruction. 2. Beyond Relativism and Holism. 3. Charles Taylor on Situatedness, Incommensurability, and Symbolic Language. 4. Stanley Cavell and the Decision to Mean What We Say -- pt. 2. Plural Theories of Literary Texts. 5. Determining a Literary Text. 6. A Dialogue between Common Attitudes and Private Romances: Cavell and Empson on Othello. 7. Stanley Fish and Coriolanus: The Force of the Interpretive Community. 8. Fredric Jameson's Dialectical Semiotics. 9. Paul de Man on the Hegelian Sublime.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 215 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0300057989".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog subject "801 20".
- catalog subject "Deconstruction.".
- catalog subject "Literature Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "PN45 .W467 1994".
- catalog subject "Pragmatism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Philosophies of Language without Foundations. 1. Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Deconstruction. 2. Beyond Relativism and Holism. 3. Charles Taylor on Situatedness, Incommensurability, and Symbolic Language. 4. Stanley Cavell and the Decision to Mean What We Say -- pt. 2. Plural Theories of Literary Texts. 5. Determining a Literary Text. 6. A Dialogue between Common Attitudes and Private Romances: Cavell and Empson on Othello. 7. Stanley Fish and Coriolanus: The Force of the Interpretive Community. 8. Fredric Jameson's Dialectical Semiotics. 9. Paul de Man on the Hegelian Sublime.".
- catalog title "The contingency of theory : pragmatism, expressivism, and deconstruction / Gary Wihl.".
- catalog type "text".