The Hermeneutical Human and Social Sciences

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. List of Abbreviations IX
4. Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science: Introduction 1
5. I. Science and Method: Towards Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Social Science
6. Toward an Interpretative or Hermeneutic Social Science 25
7. Quantum Mechanics and the Social Sciences 51
8. A Critical Hermeneutics of Agency: Cultural Studies as Critical Social Theory 63
9. Overcoming Naturalism from Within: Dilthey, Nature, and the Human Sciences 89
10. Hermeneutics from the Inside-Out and the Outside-In—And How Postmodernism Blew It All Wide Open 109
11. II. Reflexive and Relational Hermeneutics
12. The Sciences of Subjectivity 123
13. Studies of Empirical Ontology and Ontological Difference 143
14. Hermeneutics and Its Discontents in Philosophy of Science: On Bruno Latour, the “Science Wars”, Mockery, and Immortal Models 163
15. On the Importance of Getting Things Straight 189
16. Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Concept of the Horizon and Its Ethico-Political Critique 199
17. III. Practice and Application: Hermeneutics, Social Theory
18. Gadamer’s Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy 219
19. The ‘New’ Sociology of Knowledge 237
20. Taking Plurality Seriously with Michel De Certeau: From History to ‘Reception Sociolinguistics’ 267
21. Pragmatism and Hermeneutics 287
22. Make It Scientific: Theories of Education from Dewey to Gadamer 295
23. IV. Truth and Life: Life-Philosophy and History, Psychology and Theology
24. The Hermeneutical Human and Social Sciences 315
25. Life, Metaphysics, History: Reflections on the Contemporary Relevance of Dilthey’s Philosophy of Life 341
26. Four Fundamental Aspects of the Reversal of Platonism 357
27. Heidegger: Hermeneutics as “Preparation” for Thinking 373
28. Hermeneutic Reflections on Descartes’ Introduction to His Meditations on First Philosophy 387
29. List of Contributors 427
30. Index 431