Verstehen and Humane Understanding

by Anthony O'Hear

Overview

This new collection of essays addresses topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all. Can we be rational about human life without being scientific? Is historical understanding different from scientific understanding? Do psychology, religion and aesthetics have their own forms of rationality? The contributors address these and related questions, some focusing on the history of the development of the notion of Verstehen, others examining particular areas of discourse and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521587426
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1997
Series:	Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , #41
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.17(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. 'Two Cultures' revisited Anthony O'Hear; 2. Rational and other animals John Haldane; 3. Vico and metaphysical hermeneutics Leon Pompa; 4. Three major originators of the concept of Verstehen: Vico, Herder and Schleirmacher Roger Hausheer; 5. Weber's ideal types as models in the social sciences Friedel Weinert; 6. Verstehen, holism and fascism David Cooper; 7. Interpretation in history: Collingwood and historical understanding Patrick Gardiner; 8. The meaning of the hermeneutic tradition in contemporary philosophy Andrew Bowie; 9. Science and psychology Ilham Dilman; 10. To mental illness via a Rhyme for the Eye T. S. Champlin; 11. Can there be an epistemology of moods? Stephen Mulhall; 12. Feeling and cognition Barrie Falk; 13. Believing in order to understand Cyril Barrett; 14. Data and theory in aesthetics: philosophical understanding and misunderstanding Ronald Hepburn; 15. Anti-meaning as ideology: the case of deconstruction Robert Grant; 16. Perictione in colophon Roger Scruton; Index of names.

Editorial Reviews

"All contributions contain useful insights." Michelle Marsonet, Philosophy in Review

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