| Description |
xix, 284 pages |
| Contents |
Part One. Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: an Overview -- Objectivism and Relativism -- The Cartesian Anxiety -- Postempiricist Philosophy and History of Science -- The Idea of a Social Science -- The Recovery of the Hermeneutical Dimension of Science -- Philosophic Hermeneutics: A Primordial Mode of Being -- Hermeneutics and Praxis -- Political Judgment and Practical Discourse -- Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis -- Part Two. Science, Rationality, and Incommensurability -- The Practical Rationality of Theory-Choice -- Kuhn and His Critics: The Common Ground -- The Development of the Philosophy of Science -- Incommensurability and the Natural Sciences -- Incommensurability and the Social Disciplines -- Part Three. From Hermeneutics To Praxis -- The Cartesian Legacy -- Truth and the Experience of Art -- Understanding and Prejudice -- The Hermeneutical Circle -- Temporal Distance, Effective-Historical Consciousness, and the Fusion of Horizons -- Application: The Rediscovery of the Fundamental Hermeneutical Problem -- The Movement Beyond Philosophic Hermeneutics -- Philosophic Hermeneutics and the Cartesian Anxiety -- Part Four. Praxis, Practical Discourse, and Judgment -- A Historical Interlude -- Practical Discourse: Habermas -- Rorty's Metacritique -- Judgment: Arendt -- Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: The Practical Task |
| Analysis |
Philosophy - Critical studies |
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Western philosophy ca 1900-1980 |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 267-276 |
| Subject |
Hermeneutics.
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Objectivity.
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Ojectivity
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Philosophy.
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Practice (Philosophy)
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Relativity.
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Science -- Methodology.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
84672771 |
| ISBN |
0631134379 |
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