Hermeneutics and Criticism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boulton, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics.

Teleology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2024.

Summary:

Hermeneutics and criticism explores the status of ideals in contemporary society. It demonstrates how ideals have become less meaningful over time, and questions the role of critical theory in their decline. To unpick the relationship between hermeneutics, ideals, and criticism, the book reengages the traditional methods of dialectic and rhetoric. It challenges the claims of recent critical theory, such as the ontological turn and new materialism/realism, that reality can be speculated upon aside from ideals. The author argues that speculation on reality without ideals becomes self-fulfilling; the more that conceptions of reality are detached from ideals, the more disaffirming those understandings of reality become. Critical reengagement with ideals is imperative to give consequence to the meaning of ethics, morality and discussions of what society and humanity should resemble. The hermeneutic method that the book employs revitalises ideals without regressing to idealism verses realism. The book reconceptualises 'contrast' as a means to reinstate the consequences of ideals without distortion. It's a vital read for those daring to challenge the status quo of critical theory, whilst incorporating their relevance to the philosophy of communication.

Contents:

Introduction

Telos – what are ideals and why are they in crisis?

Part I

“Reality does not exist until it is measured.”

― ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering, Press Release

Method

A hermeneutics of contrast

The dialectic/rhetoric circle

Using contrast to analyse ideals

Why is there intelligence in ideals?

Part II – How contemporary ideals are going awry

Dialogue

Why ideals have come to talk past one another

Ideology

How ideals can distort the meanings of other ideals

The futility of politics without belief in ideals

Will

Do we fear to will something better?

Confronting the irrationality of will, belief, and ideals

Some lessons that romance and rationale hold for believing in ideals

Part III – Avoiding the totalisation of ideals

Freedom

Can institutionalised ideals of freedom escape tyranny?

Liberty

Liberalism’s struggle to keep its promise without distorting ideals

How contemporary criticism has come to perpetuate its own sense of crisis in the pursuit ideal causes

Class

The importance of class to the formation of ideals

How the aspiration to classlessness confuses ideals with identities

Part IV – Revitalising the purpose and consequence of ideals Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781804417539

180441753X

OCLC:

1464241815