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Authors: Reed Way Dasenbrock
ISBN-13: 9780271023274, ISBN-10: 0271023279
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Date Published: June 1989
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Abbreviations | ||
Introduction: Davidson and Literary Theory | 1 | |
Do We Write the Text We Read? | 18 | |
Interpretation and Triangulation: A Davidsonian Critique of Reader-Oriented Literary Theory | 37 | |
The Scrutable Subject: Davidson, Literary Theory, and the Claims of Knowledge | 59 | |
Strict Constructionism: Davidsonian Realism and the World of Belief | 92 | |
Analytic Philosophy's Narrative Turn: Quine, Rorty, Davidson | 124 | |
Truth-Conditions, Rhetoric, and Logical Form: Davidson and Deconstruction | 144 | |
On the Very Idea of a Literal Meaning | 160 | |
The Dream of a Common Language | 180 | |
Davidson and Dummett on Language and Interpretation | 201 | |
What Causal Explanation Leaves Out: Davidson's Causal-Action Theory as a Tool for Practical Judgment | 232 | |
Writing Action: Davidson, Rationality, and Literary Research | 257 | |
Davidson and the Politics of Relativism: A Response | 286 | |
Locating Literary Language | 295 | |
About the Contributors | 309 | |
Index | 311 |