MEANING AND READING A Philosophical Essay on Language and Literature -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE CLASSICAL CONCEPTION OF MEANING AND ITS SHORTCOMINGS -- 1.1. Meaning in a literary setting -- 1.2. The arguments for the defense -- 1.3. More about the propositional theory of language and its semantic consequences: the Xerox theory of meaning -- 1.4. Context matters -- 2. TOWARD AN INTEGRATED THEORY OF MEANING -- 2.1. The question of the validity of the substitution view -- 2.2. The problematological view of language -- 2.3. The problematological theory of reference -- 2.3.4. Reference and its mention -- 2.4. Reference and meaning -- 2.5. From substitutions to questions -- 2.6. Is meaning really substitutional? -- 2.7. Conclusion -- 3. THE RHETORIC OF TEXTUALITY -- 3.1. Textual meaning is rhetorical -- 3.2. Rhetoric and argumentation -- 3.3. Why should rhetoric (argumentation) be problematologically conceptualized? -- 3.4. Literary versus non-literary discourse -- 3.5. What is literature -- 4. IDEAS AND IDEOLOGY -- 4.1. The nature of ideas -- 4.2. Ideas and questions in Plato's theory -- 4.3. Ideas and political ideologies -- 4.4. The logic of ideology -- 5. THE NATURE OF LITERARINESS -- 5.1. Ideas and textuality -- 5.2. Literature and political ideology -- 5.3. The dialectics of fiction -- 5.4. Fiction and reality -- 5.5. Literary forms as means of materializing the problematological difference -- 5.6. The birth of the novel: Don Quixote as an illustration -- 5.7. Conclusion -- 6.THE INTERPRETATIVE PROCE -- 6.1.Beyond traditions and omissions -- 6.2. Answerhood as meaning -- 6.3. The hermeneutic question and its answer -- 6.4. Textuality as the meeting point of poetics and hermeneutics -- 6.5. Where do we find the questions answered by a text?.

6.6. Textual dialectics -- FOOTNOTES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.