Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas

ISBN-13: 9780415249720 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 196 str.

Austin Harrington

Opis

The German philosophers Gadamer and Habermas shared an idea of the process of understanding as a 'dialogue' between the researchers of other cultures and the subjects whose lives and actions they study. This book offers a new challenge to their central theory and questions the validity of the basic thesis they hold in common by critically re-examining their views of earlier figures in the German hermeneutic tradition.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Objectivity, objectivism and objectifying attitudes; Chapter 2 Gadamer, Habermas and the idea of dialogue; Chapter 3 Empathy and Verstehen; Chapter 4 Towards a critique of historical reason; Chapter 5 Phenomenological foundations; Chapter 6 Problems with the dialogue; Chapter 7 Social science in the public sphere; Notes; Bibiography Index;

O autorze

Austin Harrington is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. His work on hermeneutics and social theory in the writings of Gadamer, Habermas, Dilthey, Weber and Schütz has also appeared in the journals Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Theory and Psychology, Max Weber Studies and Sociology.