Between the individual and the collective: understanding the tensions of the interpretive inquiry. A response to Boswell and Corbett

This article reacts on the reflection of the impressionistic character of interpretive research, as opposed to the ‘systematic character’ by John Boswell and Jack Corbett. By returning to ‘intersubjectivity’, the key notion of interpretation that has substantially framed the analytical apparatus of interpretive inquiry, I show that both impressionism and system can and should be embraced in interpretive inquiry, because they mirror the tension between the individual and the collective dimensions of meaning production.