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Dialectical readings : three types of interpretation /

Interpretation pervades human thinking. Whether perception or experience, spoken word or written theory, whatever enters our consciousness must be interpreted in order to be understood. Every area of inquiry-art and literature, philosophy and religion, history and the social sciences, even many aspe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dunning, Stephen N. (Stephen Northrup), 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Paradigms of Science and Technology. A Science and Technology of Human Behavior (B.F. Skinner). The Tyranny of Technology (Jacques Ellul). A Paradoxical Paradigm for Science (Thomas Kuhn)
  • 2. Myths and Their Meanings. The Structuralist Sorcerer (Claude Levi-Strauss). An Anthropological Negotiator (Mary Douglas). A Modern Mythmaker (Joseph Campbell)
  • 3. Frontiers in History. Frontiers in History and in Historiography (Lee Benson). The Present as Frontier (E.H. Carr). The Frontier Within (Reinhold Niebuhr)
  • 4. Variations on the Theme of Love. Love as Discourse (Roland Barthes). Love as an Art (Erich Fromm). Paradoxes of Love (Soren Kierkegaard)
  • 5. Dialetics of Identity. The Fruitfulness of Contradictions (Friedrich Nietzsche).