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Hermeneutics
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Reading group: Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures, three essays
My doctorate is on recognition theory and the welfare state, which in practice means sitting in job centres taking notes. I've realised I'm doing ethnography without having read the ethnographers properly, so I'm proposing three essays from Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of…
Started by Johanna Reinhardt6 replies208 views -
Reading group: Gadamer’s Truth and Method, Part Two, on prejudice and the fusion of horizons
I taught German literature for thirty years without ever reading Wahrheit und Methode (1960) from cover to cover, which is a confession. Now I have time, and I would like to read the central part of it slowly with anyone willing. I…
Started by Henrike Vogel5 replies168 views -
Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricoeur was a French philosopher who taught at Strasbourg, the Sorbonne and Nanterre, and for many years at the University of Chicago. A…
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Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher, a student of Heidegger, who taught at Leipzig and Frankfurt and from 1949 at Heidelberg. His Truth and…
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher was a German Protestant theologian, philosopher and translator of Plato who taught at Halle and at the University of Berlin. He is…
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E. D. Hirsch
E. D. Hirsch was an American literary critic and educational theorist who taught at the University of Virginia. In Validity in Interpretation he defended…