Description: Hermeneutics As Critique : Science, Politics, Race, and Culture, Paperback by Simpson, Lorenzo C., ISBN 0231196857, ISBN-13 9780231196857, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Hermeneutics has frequently been dismissed as useful only for literary and textual analysis. Some consider it to be Eurocentric or inherently relativistic and thus unsuited to social critique. Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for robustly addressing many of the urgent issues of today.
Simpson demonstrates that hermeneutics exhibits significant interpretive advantages compared to competing explanatory modalities. While it shares with pragmatism a suspicion of essentialism, an understanding that disagreements are situated, and an insistence on the dialogical nature of understanding, it nevertheless resolutely rejects the relativistic accounts of rationality that are often associated with pragmatism. In the tradition of Gadamer, Simpson firmly establishes hermeneutics as a resource for both philosophy and the social sciences. He shows its utility for unpacking intractable issues in the philosophy of science, multiculturalism, social epistemology, and racial and social justice in the global arena. Simpson addresses fraught questions such as why recent claims that “race” has a biological basis lack grounding, whether female genital excision can be critically addressed without invidious ethnocentrism, and how to lay the foundations for meaningful cross-cultural dialogue and reparative justice. This book reveals how hermeneutics can be a worthy partner with critical theory in achieving emancipatory aims.
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Book Title: Hermeneutics As Critique : Science, Politics, Race, and Culture
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Hermeneutics As Critique : Science, Politics, Race, and Culture
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: History & Theory, General, Hermeneutics, Movements / Critical Theory
Publication Year: 2021
Item Weight: 10.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Lorenzo C. Simpson
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Political Science
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
