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Updating the Interpretive Turn: New Arguments in Hermeneutics book cover

1st Edition

Updating the Interpretive Turn New Arguments in Hermeneutics

Edited By Michiel Meijer Copyright 2023
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates. While hermeneutics seems to be firmly established as a tradition and methodology in the human sciences, interpretive philosophy seems to be under increasing pressure in recent philosophical trends such as the "posthuman turn," the "nonhuman... Read more

Introduction: Hermeneutics in the Wake of The Interpretive Turn

Michiel Meijer

Part I: American Case Studies

1. Worldmaking in the Social Sciences: Double-Hermeneutic Effects, As-If Scenarios, and Narrative Causality

Jason Blakely

2. Hermeneutics and Polarized Identities

Georgia Warnke

Part II: Non-Relativist, Realist, and Non-Anthropocentric Approaches

3. A Hermeneutics of Dialogical Understanding in the "Post-Truth" Era: Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics

Hanna Meretoja

4. What Is Interpretive Metaethics and Why Do We Need It?

Michiel Meijer

5. "How Other Kinds of Beings See Us Matters": On the Scope of Interpretation

Arne Johan Vetlesen

Part III: Interpretation as Practice

6. Hermeneutics as a Metaphilosophy and a Philosophy of Work

Nicholas H. Smith

7. Hermeneutics and Testimony: On Selfhood and the Constitution of the Social Bond

Gert-Jan van der Heiden

8. Measurement, Hermeneutics, and Standardization: Why Gadamerian Hermeneutics is Necessary to Contemporary Philosophy of Science

Leah McClimans

Index

Biography

Michiel Meijer is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp. His recent publications include "Articulating Better, Being Better: Ethical Emancipation and the Sources of Motivation." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2022) 25:1, 107–122 and "Clarifying Moral Clarification: On Taylor’s Contribution to Metaethics." International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2021) 29:5, 705–722.

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