Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Critique and Causality
5. 1. Critical Fusions: Towards A Genuine ‘Hermeneutics of Suspicion’ 21
6. 2. What is Interpretive Explanation in Sociohistorical Analysis? 41
7. 3. The Anarchy of Hermeneutics: Interpretation as a Vital Practice 67
8. Part II. Hermeneutics and Openness
9. 4. Elements of Style: Openness and Dispositions 81
10. 5. Openness to Critical Reflection: Gandhi beyond Gadamer 102
11. 6. Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Politics of Memory 121
12. Part III. Place, Play and the Body
13. 7. Place and Hermeneutics: Towards a Topology of Understanding 143
14. 8. Verbal and Nonverbal Forms of Play: Words and Bodies in the Process of Understanding 161
15. Part IV. Science, Medicine and Biotechnology
16. 9. On the Integration of Scientific Knowledge into Self- Understanding 183
17. 10. A Dialogic Approach to Narrative Medicine 203
18. 11. If Enhancement is the Answer, What is the Question? 218
19. Contributors 237
20. Index 240