The power of dialogue : critical hermeneutics after Gadamer and Foucault / Hans Herbert Kögler ; translated by Paul Hendrickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kögler, Hans-Herbert, 1960-

Series:

Studies in contemporary German social thought

Standardized Title:

Macht des Dialogs. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics--History--20th century.

Hermeneutics.

History.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Physical Description:

ix, 322 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1996]

Summary:

Exemplifying a fruitful fusion of French and German approaches to social theory, The Power of Dialogue transforms Jurgen Habermas's version of critical theory into a new "critical hermeneutics" that builds on both Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and Michel Foucault's studies of power and discourse. At the book's core is the question of how social power shapes and influences meaning and how the process of interpretation, while implicated in social forms of power, can nevertheless achieve reflective distance and a critique of power. It offers an original perspective on such issues as the impact of prejudice and cultural background on scientific interpretation, the need to understand others without assimilating their otherness, and the "truth" of interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-315) and index.

ISBN:

0262112167

OCLC:

34699586