Dimitri Ginev is Professor for Continental Philosophy and Hermeneutic Philosophy of Culture at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Towards a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices advocates this thesis by approaching the interrelational dynamic of social practices in terms of existential analytic. Indeed, this insightful volume outlines a methodology of the double hermeneutics that allows the study of the entanglement of agential plans, beliefs and intentions with configured practices; whilst also demonstrating how interrelated social practices with which agency is entangled articulate cultural forms of life.

Introduction

Chapter One: THE IRREDUCIBILITY THESIS

1. Holism without Essentialism
2. Social Practices and the Human Body
3. The "Hand" and the Readiness-to-hand

Chapter Two: THE FACTICITY OF PRACTICES

1. Cultural Forms of Life Disclosed and Articulated Within Interrelated Practices
2. Facticity, Ethnomethodology, and Radical Reflexivity

Chapter Three: CONSTRUCTING PRACTICE THEORY THROUGH DOUBLE

HERMENEUTICS

1. Defending Irreducibility via Double Hermeneutics
2. Empirical Ontologies and the Double Hermeneutics
3. The Frames of Meaning and the Fusion of Horizons
4. The Integral Circle of Interpretation

Chapter Four: THE TRANS-SUBJECTIVITY OF SOCIAL PRACTICES

1. Exemplifying Trans-subjectivity
2. Chronotopes of Configured Practices
3. Entangled Agency with Configured Practices
4. The Interplay of Practices and Possibilities

Chapter Five: THE DIALOGICAL SELF AS THROWN PROJECTION IN

PRACTICES

1. The Dialogical Proliferation of I-positions
2. Narrating the Self and Positioning
3. I-Positions and Existential Possibilities
4. Integrity through Re-positioning

Epilogue

Index