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Finally his eyesight grows weak, and he does not know whether things are really darker around him or whether his eyes are merely deceiving him. But he recognizes now in the darkness an illumination which breaks inextinguishably out of the gateway to the law. Now he no longer has much time to live. Before his death he gathers in his head all his experiences of the entire time up into one question which he has not yet put to the gatekeeper. He waves to him, since he can no longer lift up his stiffening body.
We are all parts of a larger social process in and through which meaning is produced. Reading, then, is not an excavation project, trying to strip away inauthentic social meanings to get to the real or metaphysical essence of the word; it is rather a negotiation among signifiers that have socially relevant signifieds. “Reading” is that collision or production of meaning within the context of certain sets of signifiers. Reading, in other words, is about how a social system of signifiers works (or how it might work differently).
Rabinow, Paul, and William M. Sullivan, eds. Interpretive Social Science: A Reader. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Ricoeur, Paul. The Conflict of Interpretations. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1974. ———. Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1976. Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics, translated by Wade Baskin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. Suleiman, Susan, and Inge Corsman, eds.
