Hermeneutic philosophies of social science / edited by Babette Babich.

Contributor(s):

Babich, Babette E, 1956- [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Band 506 | Studies in spiritual care ; Volume 3Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2018]Description: x, 435 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9783110528398 (paperback : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

300.1 HER

Contents:

List of Abbreviations -- Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science: Introduction / Babich, Babette -- I. Science and Method: Towards Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Social Science -- Toward an Interpretative or Hermeneutic Social Science / Kockelmans, Joseph J. -- Quantum Mechanics and the Social Sciences / Heelan, Patrick Aidan -- A Critical Hermeneutics of Agency: Cultural Studies as Critical Social Theory / Kögler, Hans-Herbert -- Overcoming Naturalism from Within: Dilthey, Nature, and the Human Sciences / Nelson, Eric S. -- Hermeneutics from the Inside-Out and the Outside-In--And How Postmodernism Blew It All Wide Open / Fuller, Steve -- II. Reflexive and Relational Hermeneutics -- The Sciences of Subjectivity / Shapin, Steven -- Studies of Empirical Ontology and Ontological Difference / Ginev, Dimitri -- Hermeneutics and Its Discontents in Philosophy of Science: On Bruno Latour, the "Science Wars", Mockery, and Immortal Models / Babich, Babette -- On the Importance of Getting Things Straight / Madison, Gary -- Hans-Georg Gadamer's Concept of the Horizon and Its Ethico-Political Critique / Geniusas, Saulius -- III. Practice and Application: Hermeneutics, Social Theory -- Gadamer's Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy / Franeta, Duška -- The 'New' Sociology of Knowledge / Schnettler, Bernt / Knoblauch, Hubert / Raab, Jürgen -- Taking Plurality Seriously with Michel De Certeau: From History to 'Reception Sociolinguistics' / Robillard, Didier de -- Pragmatism and Hermeneutics / Allen, Barry -- Make It Scientific: Theories of Education from Dewey to Gadamer / Fairfield, Paul -- IV. Truth and Life: Life-Philosophy and History, Psychology and Theology -- The Hermeneutical Human and Social Sciences / Glynn, Simon -- Life, Metaphysics, History: Reflections on the Contemporary Relevance of Dilthey's Philosophy of Life / Seubert, Harald -- Four Fundamental Aspects of the Reversal of Platonism / Lawlor, Leonard -- Heidegger: Hermeneutics as "Preparation" for Thinking / Scharff, Robert C. -- Hermeneutic Reflections on Descartes' Introduction to His Meditations on First Philosophy / Allison, David B. -- List of Contributors --

Summary: Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an explicit concern with the subject of the human. This volume outlines the key elements of a hermeneutic philosophy of social science. Contributions by key authors focus on politics, economics, applied ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, education as well as the history of philosophy. Themes in the history of philosophy are drawn from Plato to Descartes to Husserl.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Abbreviations --
Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science: Introduction / Babich, Babette --
I. Science and Method: Towards Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Social Science --
Toward an Interpretative or Hermeneutic Social Science / Kockelmans, Joseph J. --
Quantum Mechanics and the Social Sciences / Heelan, Patrick Aidan --
A Critical Hermeneutics of Agency: Cultural Studies as Critical Social Theory / Kögler, Hans-Herbert --
Overcoming Naturalism from Within: Dilthey, Nature, and the Human Sciences / Nelson, Eric S. --
Hermeneutics from the Inside-Out and the Outside-In--And How Postmodernism Blew It All Wide Open / Fuller, Steve --
II. Reflexive and Relational Hermeneutics --
The Sciences of Subjectivity / Shapin, Steven --
Studies of Empirical Ontology and Ontological Difference / Ginev, Dimitri --
Hermeneutics and Its Discontents in Philosophy of Science: On Bruno Latour, the "Science Wars", Mockery, and Immortal Models / Babich, Babette --
On the Importance of Getting Things Straight / Madison, Gary --
Hans-Georg Gadamer's Concept of the Horizon and Its Ethico-Political Critique / Geniusas, Saulius --
III. Practice and Application: Hermeneutics, Social Theory --
Gadamer's Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy / Franeta, Duška --
The 'New' Sociology of Knowledge / Schnettler, Bernt / Knoblauch, Hubert / Raab, Jürgen --
Taking Plurality Seriously with Michel De Certeau: From History to 'Reception Sociolinguistics' / Robillard, Didier de --
Pragmatism and Hermeneutics / Allen, Barry --
Make It Scientific: Theories of Education from Dewey to Gadamer / Fairfield, Paul --
IV. Truth and Life: Life-Philosophy and History, Psychology and Theology --
The Hermeneutical Human and Social Sciences / Glynn, Simon --
Life, Metaphysics, History: Reflections on the Contemporary Relevance of Dilthey's Philosophy of Life / Seubert, Harald --
Four Fundamental Aspects of the Reversal of Platonism / Lawlor, Leonard --
Heidegger: Hermeneutics as "Preparation" for Thinking / Scharff, Robert C. --
Hermeneutic Reflections on Descartes' Introduction to His Meditations on First Philosophy / Allison, David B. --
List of Contributors --

Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an explicit concern with the subject of the human. This volume outlines the key elements of a hermeneutic philosophy of social science. Contributions by key authors focus on politics, economics, applied ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, education as well as the history of philosophy. Themes in the history of philosophy are drawn from Plato to Descartes to Husserl.

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