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Gadamer and the Limits of the Modern Techno-Scientific Civilization

by Stefano Marino

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Copyright AG - IPSUK
  • 21.1 x 15 x 1.6 cm

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This book is an attempt to provide a systematic interpretation of Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics in light of one of the most important, interesting and debated questions of the present age: the question concerning the role played by science and technology in shaping our civilization. The author argues that this question lies at the heart of Gadamer's thought, and that such an approach to his philosophy might help to overcome some inveterate interpretive prejudices, like, for example, the idea of Gadamer as an anti-scientific and politically authoritarian thinker. In order to clarify these points, the author closely examines not only Gadamer's 1960 masterpiece, Wahrheit und Methode, or his main writings (later gathered in ten volumes of collected papers), but most of the works he published in his more than centenarian life, including many short essays, lectures and interviews. Gadamer's hermeneutics is seen as offering both an intriguing description of the main pathologies of the Western modern civilization, and a challenging proposal for healing the uneasiness and malaise of modernity by revaluating all forms of unmethodical, i.e. non-scientific, experience and knowledge.

  • Author

    Stefano Marino

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Peter Lang Copyright AG - IPSUK

  • Published

    August 2011

  • Weight

    391g

  • Dimensions

    21.1 x 15 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9783034306638

  • ISBN-10

    3034306636

  • Eden Code

    6223659

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