The annoying creak of the hermeneutic circle – comments on Andrzej Szahaj’s article

• Main Author: Danuta Szajnert
• Format: Article
• Language: Polish
• Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu 2013-01-01
• Series: Przestrzenie Teorii
• Subjects: Interpretacja; konstruktywizm; intencja autora
• Online Access: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/3387

<span>This essay is merely an additional commentary on the article entitled “Hirsch o interpretacji. Analiza krytyczna” (“Hirsch on interpretation. A critical analysis”). I do not focus here on Szahaj’s detailed objections to the concepts proposed by the author of Validity in Interpretation. I concentrate instead on the idea that forms the basis for such objections, i.e. radical, cultural interpretative constructivism. As a skeptical intentionalist, I cannot fully share his opinion and, therefore, I draw attention to views according to which the constructivist paradigm is becoming conventionalized and exhausted (especially in the humanities) and to the possible ways in which it can be overcome.</span>