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The Hermeneutic Imagination (RLE Social Theory): Outline of a Positive Critique Scientism and Sociology
Barnes and Noble
The Hermeneutic Imagination (RLE Social Theory): Outline of a Positive Critique Scientism and Sociology
Current price: $140.00
Barnes and Noble
The Hermeneutic Imagination (RLE Social Theory): Outline of a Positive Critique Scientism and Sociology
Current price: $140.00
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Dr Bleicher examines the various approaches to sociology – empiricist, functionalist, structuralist, interpretive, critical – by reference to a hermeneutic paradigm, and shows how the hermeneutic imagination leads to a redirection in sociology, away from scientistic presuppositions and towards an awareness of the dialogue which links the subject and object in the study of social phenomena. He argues that by allowing the hermeneutic imagination to develop, it is possible to counter the steering of social processes on the basis of technocratic imperatives, and to provide a rational anticipation of a better future.