Understanding world, other and self beyond the anthropological paradigm : a signo-interpretational approach /

Understanding world, other and self beyond the anthropological paradigm : a signo-interpretational approach /

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Author / Creator:	Pasgaard-Westerman, Martin, author.
Imprint:	Berlin : De Gruyter, [2018] ©2018
Description:	x, 198 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Berlin studies in knowledge research ; Volume 13 Berlin studies in knowledge research ; v. 13.
Subject:	Anthropology. Ethnology. Anthropology. Ethnology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11721779

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ISBN:	3110589915 9783110589917
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-195) and indexes.
Summary:	Pasgaard-Westerman rethinks the ontological and epistemological understanding of world, other and self by opposing the general anthropological paradigm within contemporary philosophy. Signs and interpretations are not functions of Man; instead Man is conceived as certain "signo-interpretational" relations to world, other and self. Opposing more traditional hermeneutical approaches the signo-interpretational relations towards world, other and self are understood as a "skeptical disposition". This skeptical disposition undercuts usual epistemological problems of skepticism and instead designates the permanent incompleteness of the process of interpretation and formulates an ethical imperative. This ethical imperative aims at an active dissolution of fixed signs; an openness towards other signs; and the holding back of definite interpretations. The book discusses how world appear as a sign-world, how the other appear within interpretational patterns, and how our signs of self are experienced. Discussing a wide range of epistemological and ontological questions and taking into account the perspectives of a broad range of philosophical traditions, a signo-interpretational account of reality, world-versions, other persons and self is presented.

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