Hermeneutic philosophies of social science / edited by Babette Babich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Babich, Babette, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an approach to the philosophy of social science foregrounding the human subject and including attention to history as well as a methodological reflection on the notion of reflection, including the intrusions of distortions and prejudice. Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an explicit orientation to and concern with the subject of the human and social sciences. Hermeneutic philosophies of the social science represented in the present collection of essays draw inspiration from Gadamer’s work as well as from Paul Ricoeur in addition to Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault among others. Special attention is given to Wilhelm Dilthey in addition to the broader phenomenological traditions of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger as well as the history of philosophy in Plato and Descartes. The volume is indispensible reading for students and scholars interested in epistemology, philosophy of science, social social studies of knowledge as well as social studies of technology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science: Introduction

Toward an Interpretative or Hermeneutic Social Science

Quantum Mechanics and the Social Sciences

A Critical Hermeneutics of Agency: Cultural Studies as Critical Social Theory

Overcoming Naturalism from Within: Dilthey, Nature, and the Human Sciences

Hermeneutics from the Inside-Out and the Outside-In—And How Postmodernism Blew It All Wide Open

The Sciences of Subjectivity

Studies of Empirical Ontology and Ontological Difference

Hermeneutics and Its Discontents in Philosophy of Science: On Bruno Latour, the “Science Wars”, Mockery, and Immortal Models

On the Importance of Getting Things Straight

Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Concept of the Horizon and Its Ethico-Political Critique

Gadamer’s Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy

The ‘New’ Sociology of Knowledge

Taking Plurality Seriously with Michel De Certeau: From History to ‘Reception Sociolinguistics’

Pragmatism and Hermeneutics

Make It Scientific: Theories of Education from Dewey to Gadamer

The Hermeneutical Human and Social Sciences

Life, Metaphysics, History: Reflections on the Contemporary Relevance of Dilthey’s Philosophy of Life

Four Fundamental Aspects of the Reversal of Platonism

Heidegger: Hermeneutics as “Preparation” for Thinking

Hermeneutic Reflections on Descartes’ Introduction to His Meditations on First Philosophy

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 27, 2018).

ISBN:

9783110528398

3110528398

9783110551570

3110551578

OCLC:

1012865442