On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Forstater, Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the social sciences, hermeneutics has come to mean something like > "interpretive social science" although technically hermeneutics is one > of a number of interpretive approaches that can be applied to social > inquiry. In fact, many of those who use it are really drawing less on > Gadamer and more on "phenomenological sociology", developed by Alfred > Schutz as a synthesis of Husserl and Weber, made popular by Berger and > Luckmann in their Construction of Social Reality book. Some also make > the mistake of conflating postmodernism and hermeneutics, and many (and > I would say most of the important) insights of postmodernism were > anticipated by the interpretive social science approaches. This list > may also be interested in the small but long-time and ongoing program in > looking at Marx in relation to such approaches (references available > upon request). Ricoeur and Charles Taylor would be two of the more > well-known names in interpretive social science. mat
Hi Mat, Can you provide some references on this? More specifically what do you think are the most important insights of post-modernism? I have seen nothing but vilification and ridicule heaped on post-modernists both from right and left. (From the right for the cultural-relativism aspects, and from the left for the denial of the universality of scientific knowledge.) Thanks. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
