Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation (Cambridge Philosophy Classics)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 1/9/2016
EAN 9781316508206, ISBN10: 131650820X
Paperback, 318 pages, 22.7 x 15 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the volume's publication in 1981. As comprehensive as it is illuminating, this lucid introduction to Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory features his more recent writings on the history of hermeneutics, its central themes and issues, his own constructive position and its implications for sociology, psychoanalysis and history. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by Charles Taylor, illuminating its enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this classic work has been revived for a new generation of readers.
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.