Intencja versus inwencja. Dylemat etyczny?
Intention vs. Creativity. An ethical dilemma?

Summary/Abstract: This essay concerns a certain aspect of the ethics of textual interpretation, or rather, to be specific, a relation being key to this ethics, namely, the interpreter’s ethics vs. the author’s intent relation. Having espoused a ‘post-Wittgensteinian’, textual-situational, or, institutional-relational situation of intent(ion), the Author has considered the ethical assumptions and implications of selected pro-intentionist and anti-intentionist approaches (with a particular focus on culturalist interpretationism represented by S. Fish). The context for these considerations is the motif of inventiveness – as a broadly understood, yet always constructivism-confounded, concept. Their starting point is an apprehension of creativity (incl. work, its author, and, primarily, the reader), being referred to the Derrida concept, whereby creativity is approached as a value with a clear ethical characteristic and a demanded counterbalance to limitations (super)imposed on a reading by the author’s intention. The arguing under discussion aims at making an afterthought on the benefits ensuing from restraining creativity in favour of intention.

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