University Press of America
Pages: 312
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978-0-7618-3105-1 • Paperback • March 2005 • $63.99 • (£49.00)
G.V. Loewen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwest Missouri State University and author of Hermeneutical Apprenticeships (University Press of America, 2003). Dr. Loewen holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of British Columbia. This is his third book.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Aporia, Aporetic, Aporesis
Chapter 2 Two Interpretations: The Irresponsibility Thesis and its Understanding of Nature; The Interpretive Turn in Archaeology
Chapter 3 Three Fragments from Fragwurdigheit: Nietzsche and the Hermeneutics of Posthumous Birth; The Concept of Culture from Nietzsche to Sapir; On Race and Sex in an Extra-Moral Sense
Chapter 4 Four Authors of the Aporesis: Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge; Goody's Anthropological Other; Dumont's Economic Man; Peart's Poetics in the Light of Gadamer
Chapter 5 Conclusion: Epilogoi
Chapter 6 Notes
Chapter 7 References