Beyond objectivism and relativism : science, hermeneutics, and praxis / Richard J. Bernstein.

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.

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