Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Proto-hermeneutics; Chapter Two The Actor as Subject; Chapter Three Horizons of Modernity; Chapter Four Critical Hermeneutics; Chapter Five The Subject as Actor; Chapter Six Paradoxes of Democracy; Bibliography; Index
Constructing a dialogue between the social theory of Alain Touraine and the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, this work locates the wellsprings of the renewed intepretative powers of Touraine's sociology of the subject and critique of modernity in an implicit and unfinished, but unmistakable 'hermeneutical turn'
