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intentionalism

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in·ten·tion·al·ism  (n-tnsh-n-lzm)
n.
The belief or assumption that the meanings of a text are determined mainly by the stated or implied intentions of the author.

in·tention·al·ist adj. & n.


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Essentially, they have argued a Great Man line, an intentionalism that explicitly or implicitly endorses the view that Mussolini himself was ultimately responsible for defining his own regime.
These include paying attention to the inherent dilemmas of intentionalism and textuality as well as the historian's obligation sensitively to create multi-dimensional contexts for viewing the past, an aggregate of strategies--each with a rich history of its own--which together, as Kelley avers, "forbids a reversion to an innocent faith in ideas except as unexamined shorthand for deeper questions of language, discourse, interpretation, and communication imposed on historians" (314).
 
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