Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 16 sep 2011 - 320 pagina's
Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.
 

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AN OVERVIEW
1
PART TWO SCIENCE RATIONALITY AND INCOMMENSURABILITY
51
PART THREE FROM HERMENEUTICS TO PRAXIS
109
PART FOUR PRAXIS PRACTICAL DISCOURSE AND JUDGMENT
171
Notes
233
A Letter by Professor HansGeorg Gadamer
261
Bibliography
267
Subject Index
277
Index of Names
282
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Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor, Graduate Faculty, at the New School for Social Research and Chair of the Department of Philosophy. He is the author of numerous books, including these also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press: The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory and Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity.

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