Critique of epistemological reason

Drawing on different versions of the constitutional analysis of culture, this study addresses the search for "new post-epistemological identities" of science, political culture and art criticism. The book offers hermeneutic investigations of issues like the rationality of science, the notion of dialogue relevant to the pluralist public spheres, and the character of art criticisms after the "end of art".

Dimitri Ginev is a professor at the University of Sofia. His research interests include history of modern hermeneutics, cultural and social theory of modernity, non-foundational epistemology, and critical theory of nationalism.

He is autro or editor of over twenty books. Among them are The post-positivist tradition 1983, Models of scientific development 1986, Dialogues on scientific rationality 1989, Grundriss einer kritischen Wissenchaftstheorie 1989, The interpretative universe 1994, Hermeneutic essays in culture theory 1995, Die Mehrdimensionalitat geisteswossemschaftlicher Erfahrung 1995, A passage to the hermeneutic philosophy of science 1997, Essays in the hermeneutics of science 1997.

Introduction
Preliminary notes on the hermeneutic philosophy of science
Between hermeneutic fore-structure and cognitive structure

• On the very idea of the hermeneutic fore-structure of science research
• Ways of analyzing the hermeneutic fore-structure of science research
• Scientific research as "ontological narrative"
• Beyond the traditional distinction of contexts
• The context of construction and the "critical distance" problem
• A note of science's cognitive specifity

Strong rhetoric of science in the context of constitution

• Introduction
• Weak rhetoric of science and weak hermeneutics of science
• Beyond the threshold of discours
• The task of the strong rhetoric of science
• Concluding note

Hermeneutics of scientific research and the role of Verwindung der Metaphysik
Hermeneutics and epistemology in art criticism

• On the methodologocal problem-situation in contemporary art criticism
• Critical pluralism tithin validity-paradigm
• Overcoming validiti-paradigm
• Critical pluralism within processuality-paradigm
• The kinds of indeterminacy in art criticism

The politics of postnational soridarity

• Liberal nationalism
• Public sphere, lifeworlds, and multicultural civil society

Notes
References
Index
Name index