Sökning: "The Intentional Fallacy"

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

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetik

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

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER