Hermeneutic dialogue and social science : a critique of Gadamer and Habermas

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    • Harrington, Austin

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Hermeneutic dialogue and social science : a critique of Gadamer and Habermas

Austin Harrington

(Routledge studies in social and political thought, 31)

Routledge, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-171) and index

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Description

This book explores the writings of Gadamer and Habermas on hermeneutics and the methodology of the social sciences. By re-examining their views of earlier interpretive theorists, from Wilhelm Dilthey to Max Weber and Alfred Schutz, it offers a radical challenge to their idea of the 'dialogue' between researchers and their subjects.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Objectivity, objectivism and objectifying attitudes
  • Chapter 2 Gadamer, Habermas and the idea of dialogue
  • Chapter 3 Empathy and Verstehen
  • Chapter 4 Towards a critique of historical reason
  • Chapter 5 Phenomenological foundations
  • Chapter 6 Problems with the dialogue
  • Chapter 7 Social science in the public sphere
  • Notes
  • Bibiography Index

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