Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science

Austin Harrington is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. His work on hermeneutics and social theory in the writings of Gadamer, Habermas, Dilthey, Weber and Schütz has also appeared in the journals Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Theory and Psychology, Max Weber Studies and Sociology.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Objectivity, objectivism and objectifying attitudes; Chapter 2 Gadamer, Habermas and the idea of dialogue; Chapter 3 Empathy and Verstehen; Chapter 4 Towards a critique of historical reason; Chapter 5 Phenomenological foundations; Chapter 6 Problems with the dialogue; Chapter 7 Social science in the public sphere; Notes; Bibiography Index;