Hermeneutics and the human sciences essays on language, action, and interpretation - Ricoeur, Paul; Thompson, John B. (John Brookshire). (Cambridge, [England] Cambridge University Press, 1981)
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.
Photocopy.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-308) and index.
Keywords: Hermeneutics; Social sciences -- Philosophy