Readings in Interpretation

<div> <p><i>Readings in Interpretation</i> was first published in 1987. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.</p> <p><i>Readings in Interpretation</i> - a volume primarily on the texts of Holderlin Hegel and their interpreter Heidegger-locates itself strategically between literature and philosophy. In keeping with this juxtaposition it treats the question of self-consciousness and reflection on the levels of theme and text. For both Hegel and Holderlin selfconsciousness and its relation to knowing are explicit themes but Waminski's readings show that a more disruptive reflection is operative on the level of text.</p> <p>In an argument that centers on the textual aspects of Hegel's <i>Phenomenology of the Spirit</i>Warminski demonstrates that the negative moment-which is often interpreted as a prelude to a unified self-consciousness-cannot be accounted for by interpretive models drawn from outside the text-by concepts like the self consciousness or the subject. Instead a completely different practice and theory is necessary. The author's Prefatory Postscript at the beginning of the book therefore serves as an introduction to sketch the theoretical basis of the readings that follow <i>and</i> as a postscript that explains the difference between reading and interpretation which those readings make necessary.</p> </div>