The Nature of Political Theory

290 The Nature of Political Theory contrast to some liberal scepticism about public reason. Theorists, such as Taylor and Sandel ...

Dialogic Foundations 291 this argument immediately addresses the issue of any plurality of goods in society. He is content to in ...

292 The Nature of Political Theory something, for Habermas, that clearly has to be andcan beacquired. It can there- fore be part ...

Dialogic Foundations 293 Speech acts would be ‘based on recognition of the corresponding validity claims of compre- hensibility ...

10 Circular Foundations The second broad dimension of dialogue to be dealt with is hermeneutics and particularly the work of Han ...

Circular Foundations 295 This is another way of speaking of the distinction between understanding and explana- tion. Activity ca ...

296 The Nature of Political Theory between what Paul Ricoeur has conveniently referred to as a hermeneutics of recollec- tion of ...

Circular Foundations 297 lifeworld. In Heidegger, it is the ‘fore-structure’, which is grounded in our existential situation.^6 ...

298 The Nature of Political Theory intersubjectivity, as manifest in language. In fact, Gadamer suggests that ‘translation’ is t ...

Circular Foundations 299 no timeless metaphysical absolutes, no ultimate universal foundations and no way of stepping outside ou ...

300 The Nature of Political Theory Prejudice therefore constitutes the substance of a tradition. To be outside a tradition and p ...

Circular Foundations 301 a prejudice, though, is, at the same time, a form of self-transformation, which implies a ‘dialectical’ ...

302 The Nature of Political Theory is crucial for being able to formulate scientific ‘methods’ for the study of natural or socia ...

Circular Foundations 303 aesthetic judgement, Kant subjectivized it in notions such as ‘taste’. Thus, the aes- thetic is denied ...

304 The Nature of Political Theory reading texts. Undoubtedly, Gadamer incorporates an account concerning how we read texts, how ...

Circular Foundations 305 infinite and open-ended; yet, he also suggests that this endless ‘give and take’ is the manner in which ...

306 The Nature of Political Theory Something slightly different, but parallel, happens with reading of texts. We also engage, fo ...

Circular Foundations 307 medium of language and dialogue, through which we discuss our differences. Like Habermas, Gadamer’s the ...

308 The Nature of Political Theory ‘method’, qua natural science, can be true in any absolute manner. We cannot put aside our pr ...

Circular Foundations 309 Second, in fusing our horizons in genuine dialogue, we are prepared to listen to another, to vacate, or ...