Hermeneutical generosity and social criticism

Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 9 (4):447-464 (1995)
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According to one model of social theory, the social theorist seeks to give as rich an account as possible of a society's own self?understanding or self?interpretation. The second model, by contrast, involves challenging the society's self?understanding on the basis of a radical vision of ultimate standards of. judgment. Charles Taylor claims that neither of these models should be privileged over the other, that both are equiprimordial ways of theorizing social life. However, Taylor does privilege the first model in his own practice of social theory?which can be summed up in the phrase, ?the rhetoric of understanding.?

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