Hermeneutics as Politics Stanley Rosen, Robert B. Pippin

Hermeneutics as Politics, perhaps the most important critique of post-modern thought ever written, is here reissued in a special fifteenth anniversary edition. In a new foreword, Robert B. Pippin argues that the book has rightfully achieved the status of a classic. Rosen illuminates the underpinnings of post-modernist thought, providing valuable insight as he pursues two arguments: first, that post-modernism, which regards itself as an attack upon the Enlightenment, is in fact merely a continuation of Enlightenment thought; and second, that the extraordinary contemporary emphasis upon hermeneutics is the latest consequence of the triumph of history over mathematics and science. "Perhaps the most original and philosophically important critical account of hermeneutics-of its philosophical status and historical development-to appear since Gadamer's Truth and Method."-Choice "A philosophical polemic of the highest order written in a language of unfailing verve and precision...It will repay manyfold the labour of a slow and considered reading."-J. M. Coetzee, Upstream

Stanley Rosen is Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He is also the author of Metaphysics in Ordinary Language, The Ancients and the Moderns, Plato's Statesman, and The Question of Being, all available from Yale University Press. Robert B. Pippin is Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the department of philosophy at the University of Chicago.

"Perhaps the most original and philosophically important critical account of hermeneutics - of its philosophical status and historical development - to appear since Gadamer's Truth and Method." Choice "A philosophical polemic of the highest order written in a language of unfailing verve and precision... It will repay manyfold the labour of a slow and considered reading." J. M. Coetzee, Upstream