Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science : A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

This book explores the writings of Gadamer and Habermas on hermeneutics and the methodology of the social sciences. By re-examining their views of earlier interpretive theorists, from Wilhelm Dilthey to Max Weber and Alfred Schutz, it offers a radical challenge to their idea of the 'dialogue' between researchers and their subjects.