How Long to Read Hermeneutics as Critique

How Long Does it Take to Read Hermeneutics as Critique?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 54 minutes to read Hermeneutics as Critique by Lorenzo C. Simpson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Hermeneutics has frequently been dismissed as useful only for literary and textual analysis. Some consider it to be Eurocentric or inherently relativistic and thus unsuited to social critique. Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for robustly addressing many of the urgent issues of today. Simpson demonstrates that hermeneutics exhibits significant interpretive advantages compared to competing explanatory modalities. While it shares with pragmatism a suspicion of essentialism, an understanding that disagreements are situated, and an insistence on the dialogical nature of understanding, it nevertheless resolutely rejects the relativistic accounts of rationality that are often associated with pragmatism. In the tradition of Gadamer, Simpson firmly establishes hermeneutics as a resource for both philosophy and the social sciences. He shows its utility for unpacking intractable issues in the philosophy of science, multiculturalism, social epistemology, and racial and social justice in the global arena. Simpson addresses fraught questions such as why recent claims that “race” has a biological basis lack grounding, whether female genital excision can be critically addressed without invidious ethnocentrism, and how to lay the foundations for meaningful cross-cultural dialogue and reparative justice. This book reveals how hermeneutics can be a worthy partner with critical theory in achieving emancipatory aims.

How long is Hermeneutics as Critique?

Hermeneutics as Critique by Lorenzo C. Simpson is 292 pages long, and a total of 73,584 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 90% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hermeneutics as Critique Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 42 minutes to read Hermeneutics as Critique aloud.

What Reading Level is Hermeneutics as Critique?

Hermeneutics as Critique is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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