Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics

by Reed Way Dasenbrock

Contemporary literary theory takes truth and meaning to be dependent on shared conventions in a community of discourse and views authors' intentions as irrelevant to interpretation. This view, argues Reed Way Dasenbrock, owes much to Anglo-American analytic philosophy as developed in the 1950s and 1960s by such thinkers as Austin and Kuhn, but it ignores more recent work by philosophers like Davidson and Putnam, who have mounted a counterattack...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271020415
• ISBN13: 9780271020419
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"