| Toward a Postpositivist World: Hermeneutics for Understanding International Relations, Environment, and Other Important Issues of the Twenty-First Ce Contributor(s): Anton, Anatole (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820424862 ISBN-13: 9780820424866 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Philosophy | Methodology - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 327.101 |
| LCCN: 94010288 |
| Series: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Studies in Science, Technolo |
| Physical Information: 185 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of the oldest philosophies in European intellectual history, Hermeneutics emerged as a process for interpreting scripture and for analyzing jurisprudence, history, and linguistics. In a contemporary context, Hermeneutics offers important opportunities for theory development in the social sciences. This new analysis of Hermeneutics addresses its theoretical possibilities for political science, in general, and for international relations, in particular. It discusses the history and development of both Hermeneutic philosophy and international relations theory and explores approaches for deriving new methodologies appropriate for the study of international relations. The work argues that political scientists face a crucial juncture in their field. The fissure between the -scientific- and the -interpretive-, between the -empirical- and the -qualitative-, has revealed inadequacies in these traditions, while at the same time, world events have called into question old theoretical approaches. This study offers Hermeneutics as a fertile field for the growth of new theories to political scientists seriously engaged in the reexamination of their discipline." |