Verstehen and Humane Understanding

Anthony O'Hear

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511563775

This 1997 collection of essays addresses topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all. Is there a mode of thinking peculiar to human life and its concerns, which is different from and irreducible to scientific rationality? Is historical understanding different from scientific understanding? Do psychology, religion and aesthetics have their own forms of rationality? Can you be rational about human life without being scientific? The contributors address these and related questions, some focusing on the history of the development of the notion of Verstehen, others examining particular areas of discourse and practice.

"All contributions contain useful insights." Michelle Marsonet, Philosophy in Review

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

Notes on Contributors
pp v-vi

Preface
pp vii-viii

‘Two Cultures’ Revisited
pp 1-16

Rational and Other Animals
pp 17-28

Vico and Metaphysical Hermeneutics
pp 29-46

Three Major Originators of the Concept of Verstehen: Vico, Herder, and Schleiermacher
pp 47-72

Weber's Ideal Types as Models in the Social Sciences
pp 73-94

Verstehen, Holism and Facism
pp 95-108

Interpretation in History: Collingwood and Historical Understanding
pp 109-120

The Meaning of the Hermeneutic Tradition in Contemporary Philosophy
pp 121-144

Science and Psychology
pp 145-164

To Mental Illness via a Rhyme for the Eye
pp 165-190

Can There be an Epistemology of Moods?
pp 191-210

Feeling and Cognition
pp 211-222

Believing in order to Understand
pp 223-234

Data and Theory in Aesthetics: Philosophical Understanding and Misunderstanding
pp 235-252

Anti-Meaning as Ideology: The Case of Deconstruction
pp 253-286

Perictione in Colophon
pp 287-308

Index of Names
pp 309-311

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