UID:
almafu_9959266154202883
Format:
1 online resource (328 p.)
ISBN:
9781501735028
Content:
This wide-ranging and provocative book responds to a debate that is radically changing the relationships between the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Many now agree that foundationalism in philosophy and positivism in science have been overturned, and that philosophy, having found that its "linguistic turn" led to a dead end, must now take an "interpretive turn." In philosophy, the sciences, and such diverse fields as anthropology, law, and social history, the turn to interpretation has challenged many fundamental assumptions, forcing scholars to contest the status of knowledge claims. Are interpretations true? Is interpretation universal? How can interpretive claims be justified rationally? Fifteen new essays representing both preeminent thinkers in these debates and notable younger scholars here explore such questions. Individual essays address aspects of the relationship between the human and the natural sciences, epistemological and normative issues in interpretation, and key topics in a variety of disciplines.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Introduction: The Interpretive Turn /
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PART ONE. THE INTERPRETIVE TURN IN THE NATURAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES --
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1. The Natural and the Human Sciences /
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2. Heidegger's Hermeneutic Realism /
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3. Interpretation in Natural and Human Science /
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PART TWO. INTERPRETATION AND EPISTEMOLOGY --
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4. Inquiry as Recontextualization: An Anti-Dualist Account of Interpretation /
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5. Pragmatism or Hermeneutics? Epistemology after Foundationalism /
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6. Beneath Interpretation /
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7. Holism without Skepticism: Contextualism and the Limits of Interpretation /
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8. Is Hermeneutics Ethnocentric? /
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PART THREE. INTERPRETATION --
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9. Interpretation as Explanation /
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10. True Figures: Metaphor, Social Relations, and the Sorites /
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11. Rhetoric in Postmodern Feminism: Put-Offs, Put-Ons, and Political Plays /
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12. Constitutional Hermeneutics /
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13. Serious Watching /
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14. Hermeneutics and Genre: Bakhtin and the Problem of Communicative Interaction /
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15. The Dialogical Self /
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7591/9781501735028
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735028
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735028
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