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Cover -- Half-title page -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Philosophy of Nature -- 1 Spinoza: Founder of Modern Naturalism -- 2 Hume: The Experimental Method and the Science of Man -- 3 Kant: Copernican Turn -- Nature, Reason, and Freedom -- 4 Hegel: Nature and Geist -- Part II The Hermeneutics of Suspicion -- Prologue -- 5 Marx: The Transaction of Nature and Social Man -- 6 Nietzsche: Nature and the Affirmation of Life -- 7 Freud: Human Nature, Psychic Reality, and Cosmological Speculation -- Coda -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names -- General Index.

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Statelessness and refugees -- The right to have rights -- Loyal opposition : Arendt's critique of Zionism -- Racism and segregation -- The banality of evil -- Truth, politics and lying -- Plurality, politics, and public freedom -- The American Revolution and the revolutionary spirit -- Personal and political responsibility.

Pragmatism and its history -- The romance of philosophy -- The pragmatic turn -- Richard Rorty: so much the worse for your old intuitions, start working up some new ones -- John Dewey's encounter with Leon Trotsky -- Democracy and pluralism -- The spectre haunting multiculturalism -- Cultural pluralism -- Charles Taylor's engaged pluralism -- Democratic hope -- The normative core of the public sphere -- Critique in dark times -- Herbert Marcuse's critical legacy -- Hannah Arendt: thought-defying evil -- The justification of violence? -- Morality, politics, and religion -- Can we justify universal moral norms? -- Is politics practicable without religion? -- The secular-religious divide: Kant's legacy -- Paul Ricoeur's Freud

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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE 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 TWO 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 THREE 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 FOUR PRAXIS, PRACTICAL DISCOURSE, AND JUDGMENT -- A Historical Interlude -- Practical Discourse: Habermas -- Rorty's Metacritique -- Judgment: Arendt -- Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: The Practical Task -- Notes -- Appendix: A Letter by Professor Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Names.