Effective History
On Critical Practice Under Historical Conditions
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2010
361 pages
978-0-8101-6500-7 (ISBN)
Description
Sinead Murphy's Effective History presents its reader with a thorough explanation and evaluation of H.-G. Gadamer's concept of "e,effective history,"e, not only as it pertains to the broader range of hermeneutic and postmodern thinkers working in the wake of Kantian philosophy, but first and foremost as a careful and measured consideration of the practice of effective history as a critical method for philosophy in our current times. In this latter sense, the work pushes Gadamer's thinking forward into new territory and provides an insightful estimation of the value of hermeneutic inquiry. Murphy demonstrates that the notion of effective history not only stems from a central issue in Kant's critical philosophy (the divide between the empirical and transcendental, between history and pure knowledge), but that it is best understood through an analysis of the various ways that certain contemporary thinkers fall into the traps and contradictions that stem from Kant's critical turn.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Habermas: A Closet Kantian
- 2. Kant
- 3. Vattimo: A Closet Kantian
- 4. Gadamer and Lyotard on Aesthetic Judgment (I): Some Problems
- 5. Gadamer and Lyotard on Aesthetic Judgment (II): The Story of Where They Go Wrong
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
