The hermeneutic imagination [electronic resource] : outline of a positive critique of scientism and sociology / Josef Bleicher.

First published in 1982.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-168) and indexes.

1. Scientism and hermeneutics : two claims to universality -- 2. The rise of a science of society and its normative presuppositions -- 3. The development of a non-scientistic sociology in the context of the Geisteswissenschaften and Idealist philosophy -- 4. Towards a hermeneutic paradigm for sociology -- 5. Objective interpretation in macro-sociology and the hermeneutic dimension -- 6. The dilemma of interpretive sociology -- 7. Between interpretive and hermeneutic sociology : the case of ethnomethodology -- 8. Elements of a hermeneutic sociology.