“Interpretation” is a term that encompasses both the most esoteric
and the most fundamental activities of our lives, from analyzing
medical images to the million ways we perceive other people’s
actions. Today, we also leave interpretation to the likes of web
cookies, social media algorithms, and automated markets. But as John
Frow shows in this thoughtfully argued book, there is much yet to do
in clarifying how we understand the social organization of
interpretation. On Interpretive Conflict delves into four case
studies where sharply different sets of values come into play—gun
control, anti-Semitism, the religious force of images, and climate
change. In each case, Frow lays out the way these controversies unfold
within interpretive regimes that establish what counts as an
interpretable object and the protocols of evidence and proof that
should govern it. Whether applied to a Shakespeare play or a Supreme
Court case, interpretation, he argues, is at once rule-governed and
inherently conflictual. Ambitious and provocative, On Interpretive
Conflict will attract readers from across the humanities and beyond.
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ISBN
9780226614144
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
University of Chicago Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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