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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE BEYOND OBJECTIVISM AND RELATIVISM: AN OVERVIEW -- Objectivism and Relativism -- The Cartesian Anxiety -- Postempiricist Philosophy and History of Science -- The Idea of a Social Science --...
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE BEYOND OBJECTIVISM AND RELATIVISM: AN OVERVIEW -- Objectivism and Relativism -- The Cartesian Anxiety -- Postempiricist Philosophy and History of Science -- The Idea of a Social Science -- The Recovery of the Hermeneutical Dimension of Science -- Philosophic Hermeneutics: A Primordial Mode of Being -- Hermeneutics and Praxis -- Political Judgment and Practical Discourse -- Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis -- PART TWO SCIENCE, RATIONALITY, AND INCOMMENSURABILITY -- The Practical Rationality of Theory-Choice -- Kuhn and His Critics: The Common Ground -- The Development of the Philosophy of Science -- Incommensurability and the Natural Sciences -- Incommensurability and the Social Disciplines -- PART THREE FROM HERMENEUTICS TO PRAXIS -- The Cartesian Legacy -- Truth and the Experience of Art -- Understanding and Prejudice -- The Hermeneutical Circle -- Temporal Distance, Effective-Historical Consciousness, and the Fusion of Horizons -- Application: The Rediscovery of the Fundamental Hermeneutical Problem -- The Movement Beyond Philosophic Hermeneutics -- Philosophic Hermeneutics and the Cartesian Anxiety -- PART FOUR PRAXIS, PRACTICAL DISCOURSE, AND JUDGMENT -- A Historical Interlude -- Practical Discourse: Habermas -- Rorty's Metacritique -- Judgment: Arendt -- Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: The Practical Task -- Notes -- Appendix: A Letter by Professor Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Names.
""Cover ""; ""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART ONE BEYOND OBJECTIVISM AND RELATIVISM: AN OVERVIEW""; ""Objectivism and Relativism""; ""The Cartesian Anxiety""; ""Postempiricist Philosophy and History of Science""; ""The Idea of a Social Science""; ""The Recovery of the Hermeneutical Dimension of Science""; ""Philosophic Hermeneutics: A Primordial Mode of Being""; ""Hermeneutics and Praxis""; ""Political Judgment and Practical Discourse""; ""Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis ""; ""PART TWO SCIENCE, RATIONALITY, AND INCOMMENSURABILITY""
""The Practical Rationality of Theory-Choice""""Kuhn and His Critics: The Common Ground""; ""The Development of the Philosophy of Science""; ""Incommensurability and the Natural Sciences""; ""Incommensurability and the Social Disciplines""; ""PART THREE FROM HERMENEUTICS TO PRAXIS""; ""The Cartesian Legacy""; ""Truth and the Experience of Art""; ""Understanding and Prejudice""; ""The Hermeneutical Circle""; ""Temporal Distance, Effective-Historical Consciousness, and the Fusion of Horizons""; ""Application: The Rediscovery of the Fundamental Hermeneutical Problem""
""The Movement Beyond Philosophic Hermeneutics""""Philosophic Hermeneutics and the Cartesian Anxiety""; ""PART FOUR PRAXIS, PRACTICAL DISCOURSE, AND JUDGMENT""; ""A Historical Interlude""; ""Practical Discourse: Habermas""; ""Rorty's Metacritique""; ""Judgment: Arendt""; ""Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: The Practical Task""; ""Notes""; ""Appendix: A Letter by Professor Hans-Georg Gadamer""; ""Bibliography""; ""Subject Index""; ""Index of Names ""
