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Verstehen : the uses of understanding in social science /

"In this volume, Michael Martin offers a critical appraisal of verstehen as a method of verification and discovery as well as a necessary condition for understanding." "In its strongest forms, verstehen entails subjectively reliving the experience of the social actor or at least rethi...

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Main Author: Martin, Michael, 1932-2015.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, c2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • The classical Verstehen position
  • The positivists' critique I: not a method of verification
  • The positivists' critique II: not a necessary condition for understanding
  • Verstehen and ordinary language philosophy
  • Verstehen and situational logic
  • Verstehen and phenomenology
  • Verstehen and the sciences of man
  • Verstehen and anthropology
  • Verstehen and critical theory
  • Conclusion: towards a theory of methodological pluralism.