Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation

Acknowledgements Editor's introduction Notes on editing and translating A response Paul Ricoeur Part I. Studies in the History of Hermeneutics: 1. The task of hermeneutics 2. Hermeneutics and the critique of ideology 3. Phenomenology and hermeneutics Part II. Studies in the Theory of Interpretation: 4. The hermeneutical function of distanciation 5. What is a text? Explanation and understanding 6. Metaphor and the central problem of hermeneutics 7. Appropriation Part III. Studies in the Philosophy of Social Science: 8. The model of the text: meaningful action considered as a text 9. Science and ideology 10. The question of proof in Freud's psychoanalytic writings 11. The narrative function Notes Select bibliography Index.