Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "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, 1983