1. The Natural and the Human Sciences

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: The Interpretive Turn 1
5. PART ONE. THE INTERPRETIVE TURN IN THE NATURAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES
6. 1. The Natural and the Human Sciences 17
7. 2. Heidegger's Hermeneutic Realism 25
8. 3. Interpretation in Natural and Human Science 42
9. PART TWO. INTERPRETATION AND EPISTEMOLOGY
10. 4. Inquiry as Recontextualization: An Anti-Dualist Account of Interpretation 59
11. 5. Pragmatism or Hermeneutics? Epistemology after Foundationalism 81
12. 6. Beneath Interpretation 102
13. 7. Holism without Skepticism: Contextualism and the Limits of Interpretation 129
14. 8. Is Hermeneutics Ethnocentric? 155
15. PART THREE. INTERPRETATION
16. 9. Interpretation as Explanation 179
17. 10. True Figures: Metaphor, Social Relations, and the Sorites 197
18. 11. Rhetoric in Postmodern Feminism: Put-Offs, Put-Ons, and Political Plays 218
19. 12. Constitutional Hermeneutics 245
20. 13. Serious Watching 260
21. 14. Hermeneutics and Genre: Bakhtin and the Problem of Communicative Interaction 282
22. 15. The Dialogical Self 304
23. Contributors 315
24. Index 319