Jan Faye 
After Postmodernism 
A Naturalistic Reconstruction of the Humanities

The philosophy of the humanistic sciences has been a blind-spot in analytic philosophy. This book argues that by adopting an appropriate pragmatic analysis of explanation and interpretation it is possible to show that scientific practice of humanistic sciences can be understood on similar lines to scientific practice of natural and social sciences.

Table of Content

Introduction From Geisteswissenschaft to Human Science The Naturalization of the Humanities Explanation in the Sciences of Man The Pragmatics of Interpretation The Aims of Interpretation How to Overcome a Myth? Neomodernism – A New Approach to Humanistic Science? Conclusion References

About the author

JAN FAYE Professor of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has written and edited a number of books in the areas of philosophy of science and metaphysics. Among the English books published are
The Reality of the Future (1989);
Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy (1991); and
Rethinking Science (2002).