The soul of speech: E.D. Hirsch and the ethics of authorial intentionalism -- Intention, illocution, mimesis -- Intentionality: meaning and the mental -- Intention after the subject -- The ethics and progmatics of intentionality.
Summary
An in-depth analysis and critique of the concept of intention, its uses within the realms of literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy of language, phenomenology and deconstruction, and its potential for redefinition.