NAMERE I INTERPRETACIJA
INTENTIONS AND INTERPRETATION

Summary/Abstract: As Kendall Walton correctly noticed, which aesthetic properties a work of art will possess does not depend solely on its directly percetible properties but also to which „category of art“ it belongs. However, appropriate interpretation of an artwork, especially a literary work requires knowing of intentional context in which the work was made. Concerning the relationship between meaning of some literary work and semantic intentions of its author, in contemporary aesthetics there is a debate between actual and hypothetical intentionalists. In this paper I will exemine the main questions which are posed in this debate, and try to show how we can improve Levinsonʼs hypothetical intentionalism, appealing to the dispositional conception of intentions. I will finally suggest an alternative way of understanding the relationship between suitable intentional factors and meaning of a given literary work.

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