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  • Chapter 6 - The Objects of Reading Are the Products of Writing

  • René van Woudenberg, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  • Book:
    The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation
    Published online:
    03 September 2021
    Print publication:
    16 September 2021, pp 135-160

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the commonalities and differences between reading and listening by focusing on the commonalities and differences between writing and speaking. Common to writing and speaking is that they are both activities that normally have a fourfold intentionality: (1) they are performed intentionally; (2) they are targeted at other people; (3) they are about things; and (4) they are the means by which the author intends to reach certain aims. Next, I discuss Paul Ricoeur's views on the distinction between writing and speaking, in which the notion of autonomy plays an important role. It is argued that Ricoeur is not successful in bringing out the distinction that he is groping for and that a more adequate view on the distinction should make use of the idea that at least some writing is creative‐investigative – that is, some writing is such that an author would not and even could not have formed the thoughts and ideas expressed in their text if they had not engaged in writing.