After Postmodernism

A Naturalistic Reconstruction of the Humanities

  • Jan Faye
Book

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction
    Jan Faye
    Pages 1-7
  3. From Geisteswissenschaft to Human Science
    Jan Faye
    Pages 8-28
  4. The Naturalization of the Humanities
    Jan Faye
    Pages 29-56
  5. Explanation in the Sciences of Man
    Jan Faye
    Pages 57-81
  6. The Pragmatics of Interpretation
    Jan Faye
    Pages 82-107
  7. The Aims of Interpretation
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    Pages 108-142
  8. How to Overcome a Myth?
    Jan Faye
    Pages 143-175
  9. Neomodernism — A New Approach to Humanistic Science?
    Jan Faye
    Pages 176-198
  10. Conclusion
    Jan Faye
    Pages 199-206
  11. Back Matter
    Pages 207-224
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About this book

Introduction

The philosophy of the humanistic sciences has been a blind-spot in analytic philosophy. This book argues that by adopting an appropriate pragmatic analysis of explanation and interpretation it is possible to show that scientific practice of humanistic sciences can be understood on similar lines to scientific practice of natural and social sciences.

Keywords

argue construction interpret modernism philosophy postmodernism pragmatics reconstruction

Authors and affiliations

  • Jan Faye
    • 1
  1. 1.University of CopenhagenDenmark

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