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Hermes’ Dilemma and Hamlet’s Desire

On the Epistemology of Interpretation

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PAPERBACK

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$50.00 • £43.95 • €45.95

ISBN 9780674389816

Publication Date: 02/01/1992

Short

400 pages

6 x 9-1/4 inches

World

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Enormously learned, quite brilliant in its details, and magisterial in its theoretical purpose.—Hayden White

The argument of the book is both subtle and telling, lodged between Hermes’ dilemma of a message he cannot deliver without co-opting and Hamlet’s predicament of a language from which one cannot ‘steal.’—Roy Wagner, University of Virginia

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