Essays about: "Anti-intentionalism"

Found 1 essay containing the word Anti-intentionalism.

  1. 1. Intention and Indiscernibilia: : Against Interpretive Intentionalism

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetik

    Author : Alexander Johansson; [2023]
    Keywords : Art Interpertation; Literary Interpretation; Intentionalism; Anti-intentionalism; The Intentional Fallacy;

    Abstract : What determines the meaning of a work of art? This paper considers three theories of art-critical interpretation: moderate actual intentionalism (the artist’s intention partly determines the work’s meaning), hypothetical intentionalism (the work’s meaning is the best hypothesis of what the artist could have meant), and the value-maximizing theory (interpretations which maximize the work’s value are to be preferred). I argue that moderate actual intentionalism is incoherent, collapsing either into the intentional fallacy or into an extreme form of intentionalism. READ MORE