Verstehen and Humane Understanding by Anthony O'hear

Verstehen and Humane Understanding by Anthony O'hear

This 1997 collection of essays addresses topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all. Is there a mode of thinking peculiar to human life and its concerns, which is different from and irreducible to scientific rationality? Is historical understanding different from scientific understanding? Do psychology, religion and aesthetics have their own forms of rationality? Can you be rational about human life without being scientific? The contributors address these and related questions, some focusing on the history of the development of the notion of Verstehen, others examining particular areas of discourse and practice.

All contributions contain useful insightsMichelle Marsonet, Philosophy in Review

Anthony O'Hear is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham, UK. From 1994-2019 he was Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Editor of Philosophy, its academic journal. He is the author of many books and articles on philosophy, including Karl Popper (1980), What Philosophy Is (1984), The Element of Fire (1988), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1989), Beyond Evolution (1997), Philosophy in the New Century (2001) and The Landscape of Humanity (2008). Picturing the Apocalypse (2015), co-authored with Natasha O'Hear, won the ACE/Mercers prize in 2017 as the best book internationally on art and religion. Anthony O'Hear was appointed OBE in 2018.

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ISBN 13	9780521587426
ISBN 10	0521587425
Title	Verstehen and Humane Understanding
Author	Anthony O'hear
Series	Royal Institute Of Philosophy Supplements
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1997-05-01
Number of pages	320
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