Description

• Title:
  Tracing (Traces of) Meaning. Text and Literature in Postmodern Hermeneutics
• Creator:
  Szaj, Patryk
• Description:
  The article discusses the approach to the text and the process of interpretation which we encounter in postmodern (radical) hermeneutics. It begins with a discussion ofthe concept of the text developed by Hans-Georg Gadamer, which is then confronted with the critique applied to hermeneutics by Jacques Derrida. After the recapitulation of both positions, an unexpected similarity is observed between the Gadamerian and Derridean teachings on the theme of the “ontology” of the literary work and the “nature” of the process of interpretation. Postmodern hermeneutics, on the one hand, perceives this similarity, while, on the other, it attempts to treat the “lesson of deconstruction” seriously, turning more watchful attention to the text’s textuality, its trace aspect, the infinite play of meanings that renders impossible the conclusion, completion, unification or fulfilment of any hermeneutic procedures. Keeping close to the text based on postmodern hermeneutics thus involves a kind of “tracing the traces” – a pursuit of the meaning-generating play of the text and additional inscription in it of the reader’s creative counter-signature. At the end of the article, the metaphor of “painfulness” or arduousness is proposed as a concept that aptly conveys the relations of radical hermeneutics with the text.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Patryk Szaj
• Date:
  2017.08.12
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish;
  English
• Source:
  Forum of Poetics; No. 8-9 (2017): spring/summer 2017; 80-93;
  Forum Poetyki; Nr 8-9 (2017): wiosna/lato 2017; 80-93;
  2451-1404
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fp/article/view/26776/24502 ;http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fp/article/view/26776/24503
• Subject:
  Gadamer;
  interpretacja;
  hermeneutyka;
  Caputo;
  dekonstrukcja;
  tekst;
  Derrida;
  interpretation;
  hermeneutics;
  deconstruction;
  text
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fp/article/view/26776
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text