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The Hermeneutic Imagination: Outline of a Positive Critique of Scientism and Sociology book cover

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The Hermeneutic Imagination Outline of a Positive Critique of Scientism and Sociology

By Josef Bleicher Copyright 1982
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge
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In his previous book, Contemporary Hermeneutics , Josef Bleicher offered an introduction to the subject, locating it mainly within the philosophy of social science, and looking at the profound impact it is having on a wide range of intellectual pursuits. This book follows on from this and expounds the author's view that the development of the hermeneutic imagination is an indispensable condition... Read more

1. Scientism and Hermeneutics: Two Claims to Universality  2. The Rise of a Science of Society and its Normative Presuppositions  3. The Development of a Non-Scientistic Sociology in the Context of the Geisteswissenschaften and Idealist Philosophy  4. Towards a Hermeneutic Paradigm for Sociology  5. Objective Interpretation in Macro-Sociology and the Hermeneutic Dimension  6. The Dilemma of Interpretive Sociology  7. Between Interpretive and Hermeneutic Sociology: The Case of Ethnomethodology  8. Elements of a Hermeneutic Sociology  9. Conclusion: Between and Beyond Idealism and Reification – Towards a Hermeneutic-Dialectical Sociology

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Josef Bleicher

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