The plurality of ethical interpretation of a literary text : postmodern interpretive categories

The article The plurality of ethical interpretation of a literary text - postmodern interpretive categories presents selective range of philosophical approaches that represent the area of postmodern ethics and ethical attitudes of interpretation. To each of them have been assigned different ethical categories of interpretation, such as: responsibility (Immanuel Levinas), dialogicality (Józef Tischner), uncertainty (Zygmunt Bauman), introspection (Michel Foucault), countersignature (Jacques Derrida), sensitivity (Richard Rorty), empathy (Hans Georg Gadamer), experience (Paul Ricoeur) and pluralism (Gianni Vattimo). On this basis the essay shows the pluralistic nature of the ethics of interpretation, which is a significant problem of contemporary philosophy and theory of literature. But it is still unused theme in practice of interpretation in modern methods of teaching literature. Therefore, the article provides a basis for reflection in the polish didactic (school and academic) connected with the possibility of the existence of postmodern interpretive categories