The Politics of Postmodernity

Essays in Applied Hermeneutics

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Gary Brent Madison

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Contributions to Phenomenology

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This volume outlines in a clear and coherent manner the implications for political theory that are inherent in philosophical hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is not only a general theory of human understanding, it is also, in terms of its practical consequences, a general theory of democracy. This book demonstrates, with reference to debates at the beginning of the 21st century, how hermeneutical theory provides the ultimate philosophical justification for democratic practice and universal human rights. One of the book's most significant features is the way in which it attempts to work through postmodernism and the way in which throughout it shows how hermeneutics, while fully a form of "postmodern" thought, is nevertheless distinctive in this regard in eschewing all forms of relativism and in resolutely defending a nonessentialist universalism. This book will be of interest to all those concerned with the fate of the core values traditionally defended by philosophy and, indeed, with the future of philosophy itself after postmodernity.

Release date Australia

April 30th, 2001

Author

Gary Brent Madison

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

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XV, 277 p.

Pages

277

Series

Contributions to Phenomenology

Dimensions

170x244x17

ISBN-13

9780792368595

Product ID

2828149

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