Strong hermeneutics : contingency and moral identity / Nicholas H. Smith
- Bib ID:
- 1695479
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Smith, Nicholas H. (Nicholas Hugh), 1962-
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997
- x, 197 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0415164311 (hardback)
- 041516432X (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. The variety of hermeneutics. Before hermeneutics: Enlightenment fundamentalism. Weak hermeneutics: Nietzsche, Rorty and Postmodernism. Strong hermeneutics: Gadamer, Taylor and Ricoeur. Deep hermeneutics: Early Habermas and critical theory. Beyond hermeneutics: Discourse ethics
- 2. Strong hermeneutics and the contingency of self. Taylor's philosophical anthropology. Rorty, Nietzsche and Freud. Strong hermeneutics and the postmodern self. Ricoeur on self-identity
- 3. Interpretation, practical reason and tradition. The narrative form of practical reason. Strong evaluation and moral realism. Pluralism and conservatism
- 4. Deep hermeneutics, emancipation and fate. Ethical totality and the causality of fate. Habermas, Hegel and Freud. Norm, nature and recognition
- 5. Communication and the contingency of language. Communicative and strategic language use. Deconstructive and agonistic objections to the primacy of communication. Wittgenstein, idealizations and hermeneutics.
- 6. Strong hermeneutics and discourse ethics. Discourse ethics and the moral point of view. Morality and ethical life. Habermas and neo-Aristotelinism. Conclusion: Towards a critique of procedural reason
- 7. The ecological politics of strong hermeneutics. Ecology and the subject of responsibility. Postmodernism, political theory and responsibility to otherness. The truth of world-disclosure. Politics, language and criticism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-192) and index.
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