The Hermeneutic Tradition: From Ast to Ricoeur (Suny Studies, Intersections : Philosophy and Critical Theory)

The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions. Here are the major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions―the major statements on the aims, methods, and techniques of interpretation. Some of these appear here for the first time in English. This book establishes the context for contemporary analyses of interpretation. Part I traces the evolution of hermeneutics from Friedrich Ast and Friedrich Schleiermacher through Wilhelm Dilthey to Martin Heidegger’s placing of hermeneutics at the center of the ontological analysis of human being. Part II follows the development of the Heideggerian tradition in the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer’s “philosophical hermeneutics” is then located at the center of several important exchanges with more traditional, objective hermeneutical methodologists like Emilio Betti, ideology-critics like Jürgen Habermas, and linguistic-phenomenological thinkers like Paul Ricoeur.

The Hermeneutic Tradition: From Ast to Ricoeur (Suny Studies in Intersections : Philosophy and Critical Theory)

History

Ormiston, Gayle L.

Americas

State Univ of New York Pr

Narrative Experiments: The Discursive Authority of Science and Technology

Book by Ormiston, Gayle L., Sassower, Raphael

Sassower, Raphael

Science & Math

Univ of Minnesota Pr

Narrative Experiments  was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In Narrative Experiments, Gayle Ormiston and Ralph Sassower bring a refreshing perspective to the domains of inquiry we call "science" and "technology," asserting that traditional definitions (like classical idealism and materialism) fail to suggest the rich and complex cultural/linguistic interplay occurring between them. This context is not merely a background, nor is Ormiston and Sassower's just one more interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Instead, their book argues, science, technology, and the humanities developed in concert with one another, and their reciprocity obliterates all traditional disciplinary boundaries.Ormiston and Sassower build their case by devoting a chapter to each of the four themes emerging from the etymological introduction. First, they look at the role fiction and other literary modes play in developing our attitudes toward science and technology -- how the visions of Bacon, Hobbes, Galileo, Rousseau, Mary Shelley, and Orwell evoke both anxiety and hope. Next, they examine a series of eighteenth-century "fictions" -- the Enlightenment texts of Kant, Rousseau, and Hume -- and the elevated (but ambiguous) status science and technology associated with them. The last two chapters evaluate modes of discursive authority and its dissemination -- classical and modern extralinguistic approaches; the contemporary-linguistic view espoused by Rorty, Quine, and others; and their own avowedly experimental journey through the labyrinths of cultural and linguistic usage.

History & Philosophy

Univ. of Minnesota Press

From Artifact to Habitat: Studies in the Critical Engagement of Technology (RESEARCH IN TECHNOLOGY STUDIES)

Technology

Balch Inst for Ethnic Studies

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