meaning

The question of meaning always comes up in talking about interpretation: what did the author mean, what is the meaning of this phrase, etc. Most of the times I've seen it brought up, except within biblical hermeneutics, the point is to talk about the impossibility of returning to an original or inherent meaning within the text. My own interests have, perhaps, gone towards what Hegel writes in the Phenomenology of Spirit: "We learn by experience that we meant something other than we meant to mean; and this correction of our meaning comepls our knowing to go back to the proposition, and understand it in some other way."

My own interests, in other words, have moved towards functions, the functions of statements, beliefs, statements, stories, especially functions obscured by the apparent objectives (the meaning...) of what has been written.