Practical Discourse Revisited: Hermeneutics at the Intersection of Philosophy and Nursing

• Autores: Stephen M. Padgett
• Localización: Advances in Nursing Science, ISSN 0161-9268, Vol. 40, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 37-50
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Three early papers by Janice Thompson—Practical Discourse, Critical Scholarship, and Hermeneutic Inquiry—are examined in reference to the historical context of the time (1985-1990), and implications for current scholarship. Hermeneutic philosophy has been neglected in recent years, overshadowed by its weaker cousin phenomenology. I argue that renewed attention to hermeneutics would help us focus on the “situatedness” of nursing scholars, the class politics of academia, and a better balance in interpretative work between faith and suspicion. Critical hermeneutics also offers a more robust understanding of praxis and phronesis, and links to pragmatism and social studies of science.