Interpretation and objectivity: a Gadamerian reevaluation of Max Weber's social science
- 2016
- p.72-82.
- Mar
In this essay, I argue that a common reading of Max Weberﾒs social science and its treatment of interpretation as either insufficiently or excessively "scientific" on the model of the natural sciences is inadequate. Freed from the either/or opposition of naturalism and humanism, and read through the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Weber can be read as offering a way forward for the social sciences that embraces both the subjective orientation of social scientists and the objective aspirations of social science. - Reproduce