Institution and Interpretation: Expanded Edition: 001 (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Tapa dura

"Institution and Interpretation recommends itself here for its rigorous appraisal of the process through which oppositions come to be instituted. . . . It provokes a rethinking of gender in all of its 'contingent essentiality.'" -- Genders "A text of major importance and remarkable originality. For the frist time, the antecedents and the complexities of the question are clearly defined and understood." -- Paul de Man "One of the primary proposals of Samuel Weber's important new book is taht we must look at what institutions exclude and delimit as well as what they include and enable." -- Critical Texts

This book investigates the forces that shape and limit interpretive practices. Weber suggests that institutions are never entirely free of the necessity of consolidating their authority through an ambivalent process of reinstituting themselves, a process in which interpretation plays a crucial role.