Allegoresis

[John Doe]

Wellllllllllllll....kinda sorta yeah...but the problem
is, the range of interpretations that are
"meaningfull" in a certain case can be great or very
limited;and that basic diference matters a lot - it's
one thing to interpret the meaning of a sarcastic
remark, or a passage from Gilgamesh, it's quite
another to Interpret the observation that EVERY SINGLE
TIME anyone, anywhere, throws a stone up in the air
within a uniform terrestrial level gravitational
field, it ALWAYS comes down...very intelligent people
like Derrida who nonetheless have NO feel or ability
in physics think it's fine and dandy to treat such
evaluations from observation as just more "text" -
oh,- excuse me; I meant "Text" - and thousands of
humanities people who simply CAN'T admit they have no
clue and should not make pronouncements on such
things, go right along with him...I can't understand
such over the top egotism; but I do understand the
easy smugness it must bring to Derrida worshippers to
be able to relegate all science to the "domain of
language" and/ or "textuality", ....I have met Derrida
in person twice,and listened to him field questions
from the audience, and this guy is a twit; he does the
most obvious form of evasion : " oh- no no no no - you
zimply dohn't uhnderstand my wurk "...apparently, his
way of "interpreting" legitimate questions from bad
ones is to not address the question fairly in the
first place....I doubt Nietzsche had anything like
this in mind when he wrote that, and I wish French
Theory Heads would ponder that once in a while...

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 8, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Keith McMullen wrote:
> 
> > The phrase "what it literally says" is best
> understood allegorically.
> 
> There are no facts, only interpretation.
> 
> --Neitzsche
> 
> 
> >
> > On Oct 8, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
> >
> > Longxi, Zhang.  Allegoresis:
> >    Reading Canonical Literature East and West.
> >    Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2005.
> >
> > Why is it that a text, particularly a canonical
> text,
> > is often said to contain a meaning different from
> what
> > it literally says?
> >
> 
> 



	
		
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