期刊名称：Hermeneia : Journal of Hermeneutics, Art Theory and Art Criticism
印刷版ISSN：1453-9047
电子版ISSN：2069-8291
出版年度：2007
卷号：7
出版社：Axis Academic Foundation
摘要：The present number’s topic is situated, as in the previous ones, on the slope of the applied hermeneutics, investigating the possibility and, even- tually, the opportunity of interpretation in the field of art. Such a problem is philosophically legitimated in the circum- stances of investing the art experience with a ‘truth’ susceptible of being ‘revealed’ through a ‘deep’ reading. The aesthetical- hermeneutical optimism is shared in some theories of interpretation like those promoted on the European continent, in the spirit of speculative philosophy, by M. Heidegger, H.-G. Gadamer, G. Vattimo, U. Eco, but also A. Danto, N. Goodman, R. Schusterman, St. Fish – in works of analytical and pragmatist nature. The last century’s hermeneutics responded to the demarches of asso- ciating the ‘aesthetic conscience’ with the reductionist patterns of the modern scientism, of Kantian inspiration, which separate art from the exigency of truth, reducing it to the status of an experience away from any form of interest. Con- sidering art as a privileged place of ‘supervening’ of truth, Gadamer claims the acknowledgement of the interpre- tative character of the whole human experience. The truth experience specific to art is like the transformation process that engages all the implied instances – author, work and receiver, each of them getting, under the condition of engaging an adequate interpretation, an extra of edification in cultural, historical and personal frame. The ‘deep interpretation’ (Arthur Danto) is different from the superficial one through its rigorous, specialized character of the assumed demarche. The necessity of such an application is also claimed by the thesis of assuming art in artifactual terms, as symbolic language (Nelson Goodman), meant to be deconstructed by critical attitude. From this perspective, the art criticism is presented as a particular type of applied hermeneutics, mobilizing on its side interpretative skill, erudition, good control over aesthetics vocabu- laries, canons and theories, explanatory subtlety, competence in articulating speeches, persuasive talent and argumen- tative sagacity.
