Verstehen and humane understanding /edited by Anthony O'Hear. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1996. - vii, 311 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

'Two cultures' revisited Rational and other animals Vico and metaphysical hermeneutics Three major originators of the concept of Verstehen: Vico, Herder, and Schleiermacher Weber's ideal types as models in the social sciences Verstehen, holism and fascism Interpretation in history: Collingwood and historical understanding The meaning of the hermeneutic tradition in contemporary philosophy Science and psychology To mental illness via a rhyme for the eye Can there be an epistemology of moods? Feeling and cognition Believing in order to understand Data and theory in aesthetics: philosophical understanding and misunderstanding Anti-meaning as ideology: the case of deconstruction Perictione in colophon Anthony O'Hear -- John Haldane -- Leon Pompa -- Roger Hausheer -- Friedel Weinert -- David Cooper -- Patrick Gardiner -- Andrew Bowie -- Iham Dilman -- T.S. Champlin -- Stephen Mulhall -- Barrie Falk -- Cyril Barrett -- Ronald Hepburn -- Robert Grant -- Roger Scruton.



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Hermeneutics.
Comprehension.

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