Paul Ricoeur

Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

John B. Thompson's influential collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur forms a comprehensive and illuminating introduction to Ricoeur's contributions to sociological theory. With a specially commissioned new preface, the book has been revived for a new generation of readers in psychology and the social and political sciences.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Philosophy Classics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781316508206
• ISBN-10: 131650820X
• Artikelnr.: 44389701

Autorenporträt

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century, most famous for his methodological approach of combining hermeneutics and phenomenology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to this edition Charles Taylor
Acknowledgements
Editor's introduction
Notes on editing and translating
A response Paul Ricoeur
Part I. Studies in the History of Hermeneutics: 1. The task of hermeneutics
2. Hermeneutics and the critique of ideology
3. Phenomenology and hermeneutics
Part II. Studies in the Theory of Interpretation: 4. The hermeneutical function of distanciation
5. What is a text? Explanation and understanding
6. Metaphor and the central problem of hermeneutics
7. Appropriation
Part III. Studies in the Philosophy of Social Science: 8. The model of the text: meaningful action considered as a text
9. Science and ideology
10. The question of proof in Freud's psychoanalytic writings
11. The narrative function
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.