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Verstehen and Humane Understanding

Anthony O’Hear author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st May '97

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This 1997 volume contains philosophical essays addressing the crucial questions of understanding and rationality.

Can you be rational about human life without being scientific? Is historical understanding different from scientific understanding? Do psychology, religion and aesthetics have their own forms of rationality? The essays in this 1997 collection address topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all.This 1997 collection of essays addresses topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all. Is there a mode of thinking peculiar to human life and its concerns, which is different from and irreducible to scientific rationality? Is historical understanding different from scientific understanding? Do psychology, religion and aesthetics have their own forms of rationality? Can you be rational about human life without being scientific? The contributors address these and related questions, some focusing on the history of the development of the notion of Verstehen, others examining particular areas of discourse and practice.

"All contributions contain useful insights." Michelle Marsonet, Philosophy in Review

ISBN: 9780521587426

Dimensions: 233mm x 160mm x 20mm

Weight: 465g

320 pages