Table of contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The Classical Conception of Meaning and its Shortcomings
- 1.1. Meaning in a literary setting
- 1.2. The arguments for the defense
- 1.3. More about the propositional theory of language and its semantic consequences
- 1.4. Context matters
- 2. Toward an Integrated Theory of Meaning
- 2.1. The question of the validity of the substitution view
- 2.2. The problematological view of language
- 2.3. The problematological theory of reference
- 2.4. Reference and meaning
- 2.5. From substitutions to questions
- 2.6. Is meaning really substitutional?
- 2.7. Conclusion
- 3. The Rhetoric of Textuality
- 3.1. Textual meaning is rhetorical
- 3.2. Rhetoric and argumentation
- 3.3. Why should rhetoric (argumentation) be problematologically conceptualized?
- 3.4. Literary versus non-literary discourse
- 3.5 What is literature?
- 4. Ideas and Ideology
- 4.1. The nature of ideas
- 4.2. Ideas and questions in Plato's theory
- 4.3. Ideas and political ideologies
- 4.4. The logic of ideology
- 5. The Nature of Literariness
- 5.1. Ideas and textuality
- 5.2. Literature and political ideology
- 5.3. The dialectics of fiction
- 5.4. Fiction and reality
- 5.5. Literary forms as means of materializing the problematological difference
- 5.6. The birth of the novel
- 5.7. Conclusion
- 6. The Interpretative Process
- 6.1. Beyond traditions and omissions
- 6.2. Answerhood as meaning
- 6.3. The hermeneutic question and its answer
- 6.4. Textuality as the meeting point of poetics and hermeneutics
- 6.5. Where do we find the questions answered by a text?
- 6.6. Textual dialectics
- Footnotes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The Classical Conception of Meaning and its Shortcomings
- 1.1. Meaning in a literary setting
- 1.2. The arguments for the defense
- 1.3. More about the propositional theory of language and its semantic consequences
- 1.4. Context matters
- 2. Toward an Integrated Theory of Meaning
- 2.1. The question of the validity of the substitution view
- 2.2. The problematological view of language
- 2.3. The problematological theory of reference
- 2.4. Reference and meaning
- 2.5. From substitutions to questions
- 2.6. Is meaning really substitutional?
- 2.7. Conclusion
- 3. The Rhetoric of Textuality
- 3.1. Textual meaning is rhetorical
- 3.2. Rhetoric and argumentation
- 3.3. Why should rhetoric (argumentation) be problematologically conceptualized?
- 3.4. Literary versus non-literary discourse
- 3.5 What is literature?
- 4. Ideas and Ideology
- 4.1. The nature of ideas
- 4.2. Ideas and questions in Plato's theory
- 4.3. Ideas and political ideologies
- 4.4. The logic of ideology
- 5. The Nature of Literariness
- 5.1. Ideas and textuality
- 5.2. Literature and political ideology
- 5.3. The dialectics of fiction
- 5.4. Fiction and reality
- 5.5. Literary forms as means of materializing the problematological difference
- 5.6. The birth of the novel
- 5.7. Conclusion
- 6. The Interpretative Process
- 6.1. Beyond traditions and omissions
- 6.2. Answerhood as meaning
- 6.3. The hermeneutic question and its answer
- 6.4. Textuality as the meeting point of poetics and hermeneutics
- 6.5. Where do we find the questions answered by a text?
- 6.6. Textual dialectics
- Footnotes
- References