1st Edition
Rationality, Hermeneutics and Dialogue Toward a Viable Postfoundationalist Account of Rationality
By Paul Healy
Copyright 2005
157 Pages
by
Routledge
157 Pages
by
Routledge
157 Pages
by
Routledge
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What is rationality and how are we to conceive of it today given the major theoretical changes that have profoundly altered our philosophical self-understanding? Rationality, Hermeneutics and Dialogue develops a systematic response to these questions, defending an approach to rationality that can meet the demands of a postfoundationalist and pluralistic era.
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Introduction
Part I
1. Habermas: Rationality, Communication and Dialogue
2. Gadamer: Rationality, Dialogue and Hermeneutic Understanding
3. Foucault: Problematization, Critique and Dialogue
Part II
4. Beyond Incommensurability: Rationality, Dialogue and Paradigm Disputes
5. Beyond Ethnocentrism and Relativism: Rationality, Dialogue and Culture
Biography
Paul Healy is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
