Reconstructive Hermeneutical Philosophy: Return Ticket to the Human Condition

Philosophy & Social Criticism

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 703-727

  Scott Baumann, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical realism; hermeneutics; holism; Hollis; individualism; Norris; rational analytic; Ricoeur; self; text

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997907240     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: 1461734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0191453703296005     Document Type: Article

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1. See, for instance, D. Silverman, Interpreting Qualitative Data (London: Sage, 1993)
2. L. Cohen and L. Manion, Research Methods in Education, 4th edn (London: Routledge, 1994).
3. Paul Ricoeur, Oneself as Another (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992);
4. Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981);
5. Paul Ricoeur, From Text to Action, trans. K. Blamey and J. Thompson (London: Athlone Press, 1991).
6. An updated listing by Frans Vansina of Ricoeur's works, originally published by Vansina in 1985, can be found in L. E. Hahn (ed.), The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur (Library of Living Philosophers series, Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1995), pp. 604–815.
7. In addition to the texts about Ricoeur mentioned in this paper, there are interesting and useful new texts: R. A. Cohen and J. I. Marsh (eds), Ricoeur as Another (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002)
8. Karl Simms, Paul Ricoeur (London: Routledge, 2003)
9. Mark Muldoon, On Ricoeur (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002).
10. Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, Vol. 3 (Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990);
11. T. P. Kemp and D. Rasmussen (eds), The Narrative Path: The Later Works of Paul Ricoeur (Cambridge. MA: MIT Press, 1989).
12. Chris Norris, Resources of Realism: Prospects for Post-analytic Philosophy (London: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 80–1.
13. Martin Hammersley, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method: Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition (London: Routledge, 1989);
14. Martin Hammersley, Classroom Ethnography (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1990);
15. Martin Hammersley and Paul Atkinson, The Politics of Social Research (London: Sage, 1995);
16. Martin Hammersley, Ethnography Principles in Practice, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 1995);
17. Martin Hammersley, ‘The Relationship between Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Paradigm Loyalty versus Methodological Eclecticism’, in J. T. E. Richardson (ed.), Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Psychology and the Social Sciences (Leicester: British Psychological Society, 1996), pp. 159–74;
18. Martin Hammersley, Reading Ethnographic Research, 2nd edn (Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998).
19. Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 1990), p. 94.
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22. Chris Norris, Deconstruction and the ‘Unfinished Project of Modernity’ (London: Athlone Press, 2000), p. 161.
23. R. Mayer, ‘What Is the Place of Science in Educational Research?’, Educational Researcher 29(6) 2000: 38–9.
24. In his work on Freud, Ricoeur's description of a memory as a fragment of a life, part of a story that has a narrative structure and a human meaning, imbues our perceptions with value. Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation, trans. Dennis Savage (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970), pp. 253–4.
25. J. P. Spradley, The Ethnographic Interview (New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1979).
26. Hammersley and Atkinson, Politics of Social Research, p. 221, p. 229.
27. See, for example, Denzin and Lincoln, Collecting and Interpreting.
28. T. Yamamoto, ‘Points of Intervention: Interview with Christopher Norris’, Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies 8(2) (1999): 221–48.
29. Martin Hollis, The Philosophy of Social Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
30. Max Weber, The Methodology of the Social Sciences, ed. and trans. E. Shils and H. Finch (New York: Free Press, 1949), p. 40.
31. Hollis, Philosophy of Social Science, p. 3.
32. Chris Norris, The Truth about Postmodernism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), p. 273.
33. Norris, Deconstruction, p. 161.
34. Chris Norris, New Idols of the Cave (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997), pp. 117, 119.
35. Chris Norris, Resources of Realism: Prospects for Post-analytic Philosophy. (London: Macmillan, 1997).
36. Chris Norris, Deconstruction, p. 162
37. see also Norris, Truth about Postmodernism, p. 119.
38. Paul Ricoeur, Main Trends in Philosophy (New York, Holmes & Meier, 1978), p. 172.
39. Norris, New Idols of the Cave, p. 124, p. 73.
40. Chris Norris, ‘Deconstruction; Modern or Postmodern?’, in Manuel Barbeito (ed.), Modernity, Modernism, Postmodernism (Compostela: Universitade de Santiago de Compostela, 2000), p. 84.
41. Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences, p. 77, p. 51.
42. T. M. Van Leeuven, The Surplus of Meaning (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1981), pp. 48–55, 31–4.
43. Howard Becker, ‘Theory: the Necessary Evil’, in Theory and Concepts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives from the Field, ed. D. Flinders and G. Mills (New York: Teachers College Press, 1993), pp. 218–29, esp. p. 223.
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46. Ricoeur, From Text to Action, pp. 2–3.
47. Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences, pp. 157, 182, p. 92, pp. 43–4, p. 157.
48. Paul Ricoeur, The Rule of Metaphor (London: Routledge, 1978), pp. 9–10.
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66. Ricoeur, From Text to Action, p. 2.
67. In Fallible Man, 1960, published first in English in 1965, Ricoeur gives us an analysis of the power of the verb, developing Aristotle, and looking at the potential of language to have almost infinite meanings (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002).
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72. Norris, New Idols of the Cave, p. 34.
73. Martin Hollis, Reason in Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996);
74. Martin Hollis, Trust within Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
75. Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 73–95.
76. Paul Ricoeur, ‘The Erosion of Tolerance and the Resistance of the Intolerable’, Diogenes 176(44:4) (1996): 189–201.
77. Ricoeur, From Text to Action, p. 20.
78. Norris, Deconstruction, see particularly Chapter 7.
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85. Paul Ricoeur, Lectures 1. Autour du politique (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1991), p. 305.
86. Hollis, Reason in Action and Hollis, Trust within Reason.
87. Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, p. 73.