Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
1.1 The Tasks of the Philosophy of the Humanities
1.2 Knowledge and Truth
1.3 Interpretation and Perspective
1.4 Unity and Fragmentation
Summary
Part 1 Standard Images of Science
2.1 The Scientific Revolution
2.1a Aristotle and the Medieval Sciences
2.1b Renaissance Humanism: Eloquence and Learning
2.1c The Rejection of Humanism and Aristotelian Science
2.1d What Was the Scientific Revolution?
2.2 Epistemology and Metaphysics of Classical Natural Science; Immanuel Kant’s ‘Copernican Turn’
Summary
3.1 Logical Empiricism: The Vienna Circle
3.1a Rudolf Carnap: The Logic of Science
3.1b The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction and Reductionism
3.2 The Vienna Circle and the Humanities
3.3 Karl Popper: The Logic of Refutation
3.3a Induction, Deduction, Demarcation
3.3b Testing Theories
3.3c Explanation, Prediction, and the Laws of History
Summary
4.1 From Empiricism to Pragmatism
4.1a The Duhem-Quine Thesis
4.1b Willard Quine’s Meaning Holism
4.1c Wilfrid Sellars and the Myth of the Given
4.2 The Development of Scientific Knowledge According to Thomas Kuhn
4.3 Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science: Empiricism, Neo-Kantianism, or Pragmatism?
4.4 The ‘Anthropological Turn’
Summary
Part 2 The Rise of the Humanities
5.1 Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of the Human Sciences
5.2 Philosophical Backgrounds: Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
5.2a Kant: Subject and Object
5.2b Hegel: Geist and Historicity
5.3 Cultural-Historical Backgrounds
5.4 Institutional Transformations: Humboldt’s University Reforms, Bildung, and Nationalism
5.5 Conclusion
Summary
6.1 Hegel’s Philosophical History
6.2 The Rise of Modern Philology
6.3a Leopold von Ranke
6.3b Friedrich Nietzsche
6.4 The Emergence of Sociology and Its Rivalry with the Humanities
Summary
7.1 Introduction
7.2a Schleiermacher and Hermeneutics
7.2b Dilthey and the Humanities
7.3 Psychoanalysis between Hermeneutics and Natural Science
7.4a Rickert
7.4b Cassirer
7.5 Understanding in the Social Sciences: Max Weber
7.6 Hermeneutics as an Ontological Process: Hans-Georg Gadamer
7.7 Conclusion
Summary
Part 3 Styles and Currents in the Humanities
8.1 Karl Marx and Dialectics
8.2 Marxism, Language, and Literature: György Lukács, Valentin Voloshinov, Mikhail Bakhtin
8.3 Antonio Gramsci
8.4 The Frankfurt School
8.4a Walter Benjamin
8.4b Theodor Adorno
8.5 Jürgen Habermas
Summary
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Émile Durkheim’s Sociology
9.2a Sociology of Religion and Sociology of Knowledge
9.3 Ferdinand de Saussure and General Linguistics
9.4 Noam Chomksy and the Cognitive Revolution
9.5 Structuralism in Literary Theory
9.6 Structuralism and Psychoanalysis: Jacques Lacan
9.7 Conclusion
Summary
10.1 Introduction
10.2a Wittgenstein on Language Games
10.2b Austin’s Speech Act Theory
10.3 Michel Foucault’s Genealogy
10.4a The Notion of Habitus: Beyond Structure and Agency
10.4b Bourdieu’s Sociology of Culture: Fields and Capitals
Summary
Part 4 Modernity and Identity
11.1 Introduction: Modernity, Postmodernity, and Postmodernism
11.2 Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, and the Philosophy of Difference: ‘French Theory’
11.2a Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction
11.2b Gilles Deleuze: The Philosophy of Difference
11.3a Postmodernism and the Legitimation of the Humanities: Jean-François Lyotard
11.3b Richard Rorty’s Postmodern Bildung
11.4 Conclusion: Beyond (Western) Modernity
Summary
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Gender and Gender Metaphors
12.3 Foucault and the History of Sexuality
12.4 Gender and Performativity: Judith Butler and Queer Theory
Summary
13.1a Frantz Fanon
13.2a Said and Orientalism
13.2b Bernal and Classical Philology
13.3 The Subaltern Studies Group and Its Offshoots
13.4 Beyond Postcolonialism: Globalization and Global History
Summary
Further Reading
Glossary
Index of Names
Index of Subjects