The riddle of the Sphinx : interpreting the human world / H.P. Rickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rickman, H. P. (Hans Peter)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Human beings.

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2004]

Contents:

1. A Discourse on Method: Certainty and Objectivity in the Knowledge of the Human World 23

2. Historical Judgment and Our Knowledge of Man 34

3. Philosophic Anthropology and the Problem of Meaning 43

4. The Horizons of History 54

5. The Spirit of an Age 65

6. Literature and the Social Sciences 76

7. Recent Anglo-Saxon Philosophy of the Social Sciences 81

8. Hermeneutics 101

9. Dilthey's Hermeneutics 117

10. Vico and Hermeneutics 127

11. Rhetoric and Hermeneutics 138

12. The Epistemology of Hermeneutics 149

13. The Limits of Hermeneutics 159

14. Literary Appreciation and Hermeneutics 166

15. Science and Hermeneutics 173

16. Deconstruction: The Unacceptable Face of Hermeneutics 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-220) and index.

ISBN:

083863995X

OCLC:

53038713