Filologia i interpretacja
Philology and Interpretation

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I advocate for rational and empirically verifiable strategies of interpretive action, emphasizing philologyas a source of establishing intersubjectively acceptable criteria of legitimacy. Such criteria serve to prevent the evaluationof interpretation from being based solely on rhetorical persuasiveness. I reject both the absolutization of differenceand the pluralism of interpretation-often equated with the act of writing itself-as well as the instrumental viewthat relegates interpretation to a merely subordinate role in relation to theory. Above all, however, I argue for a modelof interpretation that, rather than emphasizing the subjective, individual, and event-like nature of reading, contributesto the construction of a shared space of understanding and communication based on rational argumentation. I proposethat interpretation should be understood not only as a cognitive activity, but also as one with didactic, community-building, and therapeutic dimensions – an activity that fosters cooperation, negotiation, and the reconciliationof meanings, grounded in a philologically conceived text as a meeting ground for diverse individual perspectives.Support for this model can be found in several theoretical frameworks: the concept of collective reading developed byAmerican sociologist Susan Long; Wayne Booth’s notion of coduction from his work on the ethics of reading; and RomaSendyka’s term creative dependence, introduced in her reflections on reflexive and relational forms of identity.

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