Judgment and Action - 9780810136328

Judgment and ActionFragments Toward a History\nAuthor(s): Vivasvan Soni, Thomas Pfau\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Northwestern University Press, United States\nImprint: Northwestern University Press\nISBN-13: 9780810136328, 978-0810136328\nSynopsis\nWritten by theologians, literary scholars, political theorists, classicists, and philosophers, the essays in Judgment and Action address the growing sense that certain key concepts in humanistic scholarship have become suspect, if not downright unintelligible, amid the current plethora of critical methods. These essays aim to reassert the normative force of judgment and action, two concepts at the very core of literary analysis, systematic theology, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, and other disciplines.\n\nInterpretation is essential to every humanistic discipline, and every interpretation is an act of judgment. Yet the work of interpretation and judgment has been called into question by contemporary methods in the humanities, which incl.