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Hermeneutics as critique : science, politics, race and culture /

"This book aims to develop the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, the theoretical account of interpretive (as opposed to explanatory) understanding--the account of meanings and contexts rather than causes and predictions--usually restricted to the domain of literary and textual analysis,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Simpson, Lorenzo Charles (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Series:New directions in critical theory.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Twin earth and its horizons : on hermeneutics, reference, and scientific theory choice
  • Critical fusions : towards a genuine 'hermeneutics of suspicion'
  • Agency, the "politics of memory" and reparative justice : hermeneutics and the politics of development
  • Towards a hermeneutics of race : biology, race, ethnicity and culture
  • Concluding reflections : towards a new reconciliation of hermeneutics and critical theory, or notes towards a hermeneutic democracy.