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• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• 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