The Study On The Perspective Of Eco's Overinterpretation Theory

This dissertation studies Eco's "overinterpretation" thought,which is dedicated to explaining the connotation of Eco's "overinteipretation" concept,the reason for"overinterpretation" in text interpretation and the harm it causes to the understanding of meanings.Through discussion,this paper defines the context of hermeneutics proposed by Eco's "overinterpretation" thought in accordance with the academic debate on the emergence of Eco's "overinterpretation" thought,reveals the essential meaning of the"overinterpretation" thought and finds the accurate positioning in the complex family pedigree of hermeneutics.In this way,the paper can be examined in different modern hermeneutics paradigms,can be a carrier for readers to carry out a dialogue with it,and finally can be an academic article through which an academic judgment can be given on Eco's "overinterpretation" thought based on the philosophical hermeneutics standpoint.This paper answers whether there is any "overinterpretation" in the text interpretation,whether the view that "understanding always points to a different understanding",that is insisted by philosophical hermeneutics will result in issues such as relativism in interpretation.Starting from the problem consciousness and research goals of the thesis,the research on Eco's "overinterpretation" thought must be carried out in the perspective of dialogue and comparison.On the one hand,the thesis discusses Eco's concept of"overinterpretation" and related thoughts,centered on Eco's 1990 Dana lecture entitled"Interpretation and Overinterpretation",combined with Eco's other works,but this This interpretation of Eco's "overinterpretation" thought is inseparable from the discussion about the issue of "overinterpretation" between Eco and other scholars,and it can only rely on their questions and answers about "overinterpretation".Logic can reveal the essence and full picture of Eco's thought.On the other hand,it is important to reveal the essence and overall picture of Eco's "overinterpretation" thought,but it is more important to have a reasonable discussion on whether his thought is reasonable.This kind of discussion is particularly critical for the understanding of justified philosophical hermeneutics and for responding to the relativistic accusations of philosophical hermeneutics.To this end,it is necessary to respond to the challenge posed by Eco's"overinterpretation" thought.The response to Eco can only be completed in the developmental perspective of modern hermeneutics.Because only by fully exposing the differences in the position of different hermeneutics paradigms in the complex family pedigree of modern hermeneutics on the relationship between textual meaning and interpretation,can we accurately locate Eco's "overinterpretation" thinking and solve its interpretation of thoughts.Study the paradigm attribution problem,so that it is reasonable and evidence to analyze and discuss his thoughts,and finally respond to the challenge brought by Eco's "overinterpretation" thought.Based on the logic of dialogue and comparison,this paper conducted the research from four interrelated as well as four sub-topics with inherent evolutionary logic.The first sub-topic(Chapter1)mainly discusses the proposal of Eco's"overinterpretation" thought.Through the analysis of Eco's texts,especially in combination with Danner's lectures,Eco's thoughts on readers' rights and over-emphasis were extracted.Chapterl also examined Eco's reason analysis:readers'interpretation of the text's meaning has been disconnected from the Greek rationality and fallen into a mysticism mode.Eco calls it "Textual Gnosticism",which bases the interpretation of meaning as well as the textual interpretation on the "mutual induction between man and nature and between the macrocosm and the microcosm",thereby interpreting the hidden or obvious "similarity" connection.The textual Gnosticism is shown in the "semiotics theory" which appeals to the author's induction and the direct grasp of the text.The "semiotics theory" gives readers the right to interpret the text arbitrarily,so the meaning of the text is arbitrarily expanded,which will inevitably result in "overinterpretation" as well as interpretive relativism.The second sub-topic(Chapter 2)focuses on the high spot reviews of controversy resulted from Eco's "overinterpretation" thought.Through the discussion of Eco,Richard Rorty,Jonathan Kahler and others about the issue of "overinterpretation",the chapter2 further reveals the in-depth meaning of Eco's "overinterpretation" thought.Such way of interpretation is also in line with the actual development of Eco's thoughts.Strictly speaking,Eco's thought of "overinterpretation" can't be considered as a rigorously argued thought system but as a thought which is constantly clarified and developed in the debate.In this sub-topic,through introducing Eco's discussion on the concept of textual intention,Eco's reasonable interpretation standard which aims to prevent the occurrence of "overinterpretation" and the idea of restricting text activities were discussed.The interpretive text proposed by Rorty is to "use text" and a good interpretation is the criticism of the interpreter's useful interpretation and the too conservative viewpoint about Kahler's accusation.The insisting overinterpretation of a text will result in new understandings.In response to this idea,Eco separately put forward the viewpoints of "textual intention","model author" and "model reader",which have greatly expanded the meaning of Eco's "overinterpretation" thought and also made the hermeneutical attribution of Eco's "overinterpretation" interpretation become clear.The third sub-topic(Chapter3)attaches emphasis on the positioning of the hermeneutics paradigm of Eco's "overinterpretation" thought.Obviously,the discussion on this matter must be conducted in the conceptual history of modern hermeneutics.Through the analysis of Schleiermacher and Dilthey's universal hermeneutics,Betty's"Hermeneutics of General Methodology as a Spiritual Science",Paul Rico's "Text Hermeneutics" and relevant thoughts on text interpretation and meaning understanding in Gadamer's "Philosophical Hermeneutics",and through comparing them with Eco's"overinterpretation" thought,chapter3 not only solves the problem of the attribution of the normal form of the hermeneutics of Eco's "overinterpretation" thought,and answers how to understand the phenomenon of "overinterpretation" to the perspective of modern hermeneutics and what kind of problem it is.More importantly,through comparative research,the fact is clear that "overinterpretation" exists in the perspective of methodological hermeneutics or the hermeneutics that insists on the realist standpoint of meaning,which is a kind of substantive theory based on Aristotle Interpretation of the phenomenon that occurs.This cognition provides a legitimacy prerequisite for criticizing Eco's "overinterpretation" thought from the standpoint of philosophical hermeneutics.The fourth sub-topic(Chapter4)shifts the research perspective to the philosophical hermeneutics standpoint,which responds to the challenge of Eco's "overinterpretation"thought in both dialogue and debate.In accordance with the above research,"overinterpretation," is a phenomenon which must exist in methodological hermeneutics or the hermeneutics that insist on the realist position of meaning,because such paradigm of hermeneutics or the "author's intention theory" which insists on the meaning of the text,or the meaning of the text independently exists,that is to say,after the text is created by the author,the text has been created,which has become an independent individual with its own meaning.Philosophical hermeneutics insists on the phenomenological standpoint on the issue of textual meaning.The meaning of a text is considered to be formed by a fusion of horizons generated in the historical context of the interpreter,which is the result of the historical product of the interpretive activity.In this regard,understanding a text that can be understood can generate an understanding of the meaning of the text.Here,the first principle of generation of textual meaning is the historical principle of hermeneutics.Under such principle,there will be only different understandings without a better understanding.Thus,Hans-Georg Gadamer said:"The real historical object is not an object at all.Instead,it is a unity of oneself and the other and a relationship in which historical reality and historical understanding exist at the same time".In this way,philosophical hermeneutics resolves the problem of"overinterpretation",providing a new way of thinking for text interpretation as well as meaning understanding,especially the relativism of interpretation.