ABSTRACT
This book explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates.
While hermeneutics seems to be firmly established as a tradition and methodology in the human sciences, interpretive philosophy seems to be under increasing pressure in recent philosophical trends such as the "posthuman turn," the "nonhuman turn," and the "speculative turn." Responding to this predicament, this book shows how hermeneutics is gaining new force and fresh applications today by bringing together a group of leading interpretive philosophers to address such timely topics as the entanglement of social science, culture, and politics in liberal capitalist societies, the extremism with which some identities are held within those societies, the possibility of genuine, non-relativist dialogue in a "post-truth" era, the nature of the strong moral judgments people tend to make in that era, the significance of interpretation for understanding nonhuman life forms, and the inherently hermeneutic dimension of such practices as work and productive action, testimony and witnessing, and measurement in scientific practice.
Updating the Interpretive Turn will be of interest to researchers working in critical social science, social philosophy, ethical theory, environmental philosophy, philosophy of work, philosophy of testimony, philosophy of measurement, and philosophical hermeneutics itself.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
American Case Studies
chapter 121|17 pages
Worldmaking in the Social Sciences
part II|64 pages
Non-Relativist, Realist, and Non-Anthropocentric Approaches
chapter 523|23 pages
A Hermeneutics of Dialogical Understanding in the “Post-Truth” Era
part III|58 pages
Interpretation as Practice