Chapter Four. The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. INTRODUCTION The Interpretive Turn: Emergence of an Approach 1
5. PART ONE. The Primacy of Meaning: Culture as Context
6. Chapter One. Interpretation and the Sciences of Man 25
7. Chapter Two. The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text 73
8. Chapter Three. The Problem of Historical Consciousness 103
9. PART TWO. Context as World: Interpretations
10. Chapter Four. The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding 163
11. Chapter Five. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 181
12. Chapter Six. From the Native's Point of View: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding 225
13. Chapter Seven. Normal Circumstances, Literal Language, Direct Speech Acts, the Ordinary; the Everyday, the Obvious, What Goes Without Saying, and Other Special Cases 243
14. Chapter Eight. The Relations Between History and History of Science 267
15. Chapter Nine. Psychoanalysis and the Movement of Contemporary Culture 301
16. Chapter Ten. New Religious Consciousness and the Crisis in Modernity 341
17. Critical Bibliography 365