History and Philosophy of the Humanities An Introduction.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The Tasks of the Philosophy of the Humanities; 1.2 Knowledge and Truth; 1.3 Interpretation and Perspective; 1.4 Unity and Fragmentation; Summary; Part 1: Standard Images of Science; 2. The Birth of the Modern Natural Sciences; 2.1 The Scientific Revolution; 2.1a Aristotle and the Medieval Sciences; 2.1b Renaissance Humanism: Eloquence and Learning; 2.1c The Rejection of Humanism and Aristotelian Science; 2.1d What Was the Scientific Revolution?; 2.2 Epistemology and Metaphysics of Classical Natural Science

Immanuel Kant's 'Copernican Turn'Summary; 3. Logical Empiricism and Critical Rationalism; 3.1 Logical Empiricism: The Vienna Circle; 3.1a Rudolf Carnap: The Logic of Science; 3.1b The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction and Reductionism; 3.2 The Vienna Circle and the Humanities; 3.3 Karl Popper: The Logic of Refutation; 3.3a Induction, Deduction, Demarcation; 3.3b Testing Theories; 3.3c Explanation, Prediction, and the Laws of History; Summary; 4. Historicizing the Philosophy of Science; 4.1 From Empiricism to Pragmatism; 4.1a The Duhem-Quine Thesis; 4.1b Willard Quine's Meaning Holism

4.1c Wilfrid Sellars and the Myth of the Given4.2 The Development of Scientific Knowledge According to Thomas Kuhn; 4.3 Kuhn's Philosophy of Science: Empiricism, Neo-Kantianism, or Pragmatism?; 4.4 The 'Anthropological Turn'; Summary; Part 2: The Rise of the Humanities; 5. The Birth of the Modern Humanities; 5.1 Michel Foucault's Archaeology of the Human Sciences; 5.2 Philosophical Backgrounds: Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; 5.2a Kant: Subject and Object; 5.2b Hegel: Geist and Historicity; 5.3 Cultural-Historical Backgrounds

5.4 Institutional Transformations: Wilhelm von Humboldt's University Reforms, Bildung, and Nationalism5.5 Conclusion; Summary; 6. Developing New Disciplines; 6.1 Hegel's Philosophical History; 6.2 The Rise of Modern Philology; 6.3 Historiography and Genealogy; 6.3a Leopold von Ranke; 6.3b Friedrich Nietzsche; 6.4 The Emergence of Sociology and Its Rivalry with the Humanities; Summary; 7. Between Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences: In Search of a Method; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 From Biblical Exegesis to General Method: Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey

7.2a Schleiermacher and Hermeneutics7.2b Dilthey and the Humanities; 7.3 Psychoanalysis between Hermeneutics and Natural Science; 7.4 Neo-Kantianism: Heinrich Rickert and Ernst Cassirer; 7.4a Rickert; 7.4b Cassirer; 7.5 Understanding in the Social Sciences: Max Weber; 7.6 Hermeneutics as an Ontological Process: Hans-Georg Gadamer; 7.7 Conclusion; Summary; Part 3: Styles and Currents in the Humanities; 8. Critical Theory; 8.1 Karl Marx and Dialectics; 8.2 Marxism, Language, and Literature: György Lukács, Valentin Voloshinov, Mikhail Bakhtin; 8.3 Antonio Gramsci; 8.4 The Frankfurt School

8.4a Walter Benjamin

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