Hermeneutics, citizenship, and the public sphere
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Hermeneutics, citizenship, and the public sphere
（SUNY series in political theory, contemporary issues）
State University of New York Press, c1993
- : pbk
Available at 26 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 277-287
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book sheds new light on the question of democratic politics by proposing a hermeneutic conception of citizenship and the public sphere. At the same time, it presents a critique of the postmodern arguments advanced by Richard Rorty, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard. Questioning a dominant interpretation that sees Gadamer's hermeneutics as the expression of a conservative project, Alejandro argues that it includes an important element of critique that could challenge dominant structures and practices.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Citizenship and the Aleph
Chapter 1. Models of Citizenship and Hermeneutics
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Citizenship as universality and as a legal construction
1.3 Citizenship as neutrality
1.4 Citizenship as communality and participation
1.5 Citizenship as amelioration of class conflicts
1.6 Citizenship as self-sufficiency
1.7 Citizenship as a hermeneutic endeavor
Chapter 2. Citizenship, Irony, Adriftness: Richard Rorty's Hermeneutics
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Pragmatism and historicity
2.3 Contingency and politics
2.4 Metaphysical "foundations" and historical ones: A critique of Rorty's conception of history
2.5 Conversation and Rorty's ideal citizen
2.6 Irony and pluralism
2.7 Irony, solidarity, or why reading books is not enough
2.8 Conclusion
Chapter 3. Citizenship and Gadamer's Hermeneutics
3.1 Understanding, interpretation, language
3.2 Citizenship and dialogue
3.3 Historicity and universality
3.4 Phronesis, techne, solidarity: Gadamer's analysis of the modern polis
3.5 Hermeneutics and the limits of conversation
Chapter 4. Toward a Hermeneutic-Historical Consciousness
4.1 Hermeneutics and memory
4.2 A hermeneutic-historical consciousness
4.3 Hermeneutics and a minimalist conception of the good
4.4 Replies and answers
Chapter 5. Hermeneutics and the Limits of Difference
5.1 Difference and the critique of universality
5.2 The confusion of the West
5.3 The differend: Victims and the fate of phrases
5.4 The Impossible Consensus
5.5 Negotiations, ruses and the odd couple: Kantianism and paganism
5.6 Justice or the triumph of paganism
5.7 The limits of difference
Chapter 6. The Quest for Community and the Quest for Glory: John Dewey's and Hannah Arendt's Visions of the Public Sphere
6.1 The public: Democracy as community life
6.2 The crisis of the political
6.3 Action, politics, and mass society
Chapter 7. Communication and the Public Sphere: The Case of Habermas
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The public sphere and the ideal speech situation
7.3 Psychoanalysis and communication
7.4 Distorted communication and the Leninist temptation
7.5 Critique, praxis, emancipation
Chapter 8. Play vs. Simulacrum: A Hermeneutic Conception of the Public Sphere
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The masses and the end of the political: The case of Baudrillard
8.3 Masses, resistance, apocalypse
8.4 Play and the political
8.5 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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