Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-202) and index
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Epigraph; Preface; General introduction; Critiques; Excursus: 'discourse'; Notes; The social sciences and criticism; The understandings of the theories of value in Adam Smith and David Ricardo; Guilty understanding; Notes; Language and criticism; Languages; Saussure and his oppositions; Language, sign, difference and flow of meaning; Notes; The teleological mode of reading; Author and intention; The teleological mode of reading; Michael Dummett's 'exegesis'; Notes; Interpretation and the harmonious whole; The unity of the text
In this important contribution to methodological debate, Peter Ekegren uses developments within literary criticism, philosophy and critical theory to reclaim this study for the social sciences
