Hermeneutics as critique : science, politics, race and culture / Lorenzo C. Simpson.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Twin earth and its horizons : on hermeneutics, reference, and scientific theory choice -- Critical fusions : towards a genuine 'hermeneutics of suspicion' -- Agency, the "politics of memory" and reparative justice : hermeneutics and the politics of development -- Towards a hermeneutics of race : biology, race, ethnicity and culture -- Concluding reflections : towards a new reconciliation of hermeneutics and critical theory, or notes towards a hermeneutic democracy.

"This book aims to develop the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, the theoretical account of interpretive (as opposed to explanatory) understanding--the account of meanings and contexts rather than causes and predictions--usually restricted to the domain of literary and textual analysis, in new directions by exploiting its potential as an instrument of critique. It refutes commonly held claims that hermeneutic analyses are necessarily relativistic, Eurocentric, or critically impotent and demonstrates how hermeneutic procedures can inform analyses of urgent current and cross-cultural issues such as the biology of race, female genital excision, and the so-called "culture of poverty" thesis. Lorenzo Simpson demonstrates that a robust methodology of philosophical hermeneutics is well positioned to intervene in critical political and social issues in global ethics and justice in concert with critical theory's emancipatory aims"--

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