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    Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
    Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis

    Richard J. Bernstein (Author)

    9780812211658

    Paperback / softback, published 1 November 1983

    320 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.48 kg

    "A fascinating and timely treatment of the objectivism versus relativism debates occurring in philosophy of science, literary theory, the social sciences, political science, and elsewhere."-Choice

    "A superb book. It combines two strong qualities rarely seen together: it makes an insightful and extremely valuable contribution to the philosophical issues on a central matter [and] is at the cutting edge of the subject."-Charles Taylor

    Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality-a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.

    PREFACE
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    PART ONE. BEYOND OBJECTIVISM AND RELATIVISM: AN OVERVIEW
    Objectivism and Relativism
    The Cartesian Anxiety
    Postempiricist Philosophy and History of Science
    The Idea of a Social Science
    The Recovery of the Hermeneutical Dimension of Science
    Philosophic Hermeneutics: A Primordial Mode of Being
    Hermeneutics and Praxis
    Political Judgment and Practical Discourse
    Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis

    PART TWO. SCIENCE, RATIONALITY, AND INCOMMENSURABILITY
    The Practical Rationality of Theory-Choice
    Kuhn and His Critics: The Common Ground
    The Development of the Philosophy of Science
    Incommensurability and the Natural Sciences
    Incommensurability and the Social Disciplines

    PART THREE. FROM HERMENEUTICS TO PRAXIS
    The Cartesian Legacy
    Truth and the Experience of Art
    Understanding and Prejudice
    The Hermeneutical Circle
    Temporal Distance, Effective-Historical Consciousness, and the Fusion of Horizons
    Application: The Rediscovery of the Fundamental Hermeneutical Problem
    The Movement Beyond Philosophic Hermeneutics
    Philosophic Hermeneutics and the Cartesian Anxiety

    PART FOUR. PRAXIS, PRACTICAL DISCOURSE, AND JUDGMENT
    A Historical Interlude
    Practical Discourse: Habermas
    Rorty's Metacritique
    Judgment: Arendt
    Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: The Practical Task

    NOTES
    APPENDIX. A LETTER BY PROFESSOR HANS-GEORG GADAMER
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    SUBJECT INDEX
    INDEX
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