Beyond objectivism and relativism : science, hermeneutics, and praxis /
Richard J. Bernstein.
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
- xix, 284 pages ; 23 cm
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276).
Part I. 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 II. 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 III. 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 IV. Praxis, practical discourse, and judgment. A historical interlude ; Practical discourse : Habermas ; Rorty's metacritique ; Judgment : Arendt ; Beyond objectivism and relativism : the practical task -- Appendix: A letter by Professor Hans-Georg Gadamer.