Time and Space: Thinking Pluralistically
When you read something, is the meaning in the text? If it isn't in the text, or only in the text, where does it exist? What is the role of the reader in determining meaning? Can readers decide that a text means anything they want, exactly as they say it means? Why do people in different places and at different times have a tendency to understand texts in a variety of quite different ways? Questions of this kind are...