Action, Intersubjectivity and Narrative Identity: Essays on Critical Hermeneutics

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The book reconsiders Paul Ricoeurs speculative research from the perspective of a critical hermeneutics understood as a general methodology which is able to work at an interdisciplinary level. The specialisation of sciences results in a differentiation of knowledge that determines advancement, while also provoking a great increase of complexity and fragmentation. As such, among the human sciences, some problematic disciplines, like psychoanalysis, sociology and history, have not yet found a unified methodological and epistemological structure. This book argues that critical hermeneutics may work as a mediatory inter-discipline in this regard.


About the Author


Vinicio Busacchi is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and recently obtained the national scientific qualification for the role of Full Professor. He is primarily interested in psychoanalysis, philosophy of history, hermeneutical models of identity, and philosophy of action. He is the author of Pour une herméneutique critique (2013), The Recognition Principle (2015), and Habermas and Ricoeurs Depth Hermeneutics: From Psychoanalysis to a Critical Human Science (2016), among other books.