Dialectical readings : three types of interpretation /
Stephen N. Dunning.
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
- iv, 191 p.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents: A Question Three types of interpretation Typologies Dialectics Something about Kierkegaard Applications 1. Paradigms of Science and Technology A Science and Technology of Human Behavior (B.F. Skinner) The Tyranny of technology (Jacques Ellul) A Paradoxical Paradigm for Science (Thomas Kuhn) 2. Myths and their meanings The Structuralist sorcerer (Claude Levi-Strauss) An Anthropological Negotiator (Mary Douglas) A Modern Mythmaker (Joseph Campbell) 3. Frontiers in history Frontiers in history and in historiography (Lee Benson) The Present as Frontier (E.H. Carr) The Frontier Within (Reinhold Niebuhr) 4. Variations on the theme of love Love as discourse (Roland Barthes) Love as an art ( Erich Fromm) Paradoxes of love (Soren Kierkegaard) 5. Dialects of Identity The fruitfulness of contradictions (Friedrich Nietzsche) Relationship as reciprocity (Martin Buber) Paradoxical Existence (Paul Tillich) 6. Interpreting theories of interpretation A postmodern protest (Michel Foucault) An Ethics of interpretation (E.D. Hirsch) Transforming interpretation (Paul Ricoer) Conclusion Theoretical knowledge Transactional Relations Transformational Revelation Unfinished agenda