Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE BEYOND OBJECTIVISM AND RELATIVISM: AN OVERVIEW -- Objectivism and Relativism -- The Cartesian Anxiety -- Postempiricist Philosophy and History of Science -- The Idea of a Social Science -- The Recovery of the Hermeneutical Dimension of Science -- Philosophic Hermeneutics: A Primordial Mode of Being -- Hermeneutics and Praxis -- Political Judgment and Practical Discourse -- Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis -- PART TWO SCIENCE, RATIONALITY, AND INCOMMENSURABILITY -- The Practical Rationality of Theory-Choice -- Kuhn and His Critics: The Common Ground -- The Development of the Philosophy of Science -- Incommensurability and the Natural Sciences -- Incommensurability and the Social Disciplines -- PART THREE FROM HERMENEUTICS TO PRAXIS -- The Cartesian Legacy -- Truth and the Experience of Art -- Understanding and Prejudice -- The Hermeneutical Circle -- Temporal Distance, Effective-Historical Consciousness, and the Fusion of Horizons -- Application: The Rediscovery of the Fundamental Hermeneutical Problem -- The Movement Beyond Philosophic Hermeneutics -- Philosophic Hermeneutics and the Cartesian Anxiety -- PART FOUR PRAXIS, PRACTICAL DISCOURSE, AND JUDGMENT -- A Historical Interlude -- Practical Discourse: Habermas -- Rorty's Metacritique -- Judgment: Arendt -- Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: The Practical Task -- Notes -- Appendix: A Letter by Professor Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Names.