Hermeneutics as Politics perhaps the most important critique of post modern thought ever written is here reissued in a special fifteenth anniversary edition In a new foreword Robert B Pippin argues that the book has rightfully achieved the status of a classic Rosen illuminates the underpinnings of post modernist thought providing valuable insight as he pursues two arguments first that post modernism which regards itself as an attack upon the Enlightenment is in fact merely a continuation of Enlightenment thought and second that the extraordinary contemporary emphasis upon hermeneutics is the latest consequence of the triumph of history over mathematics and science Perhaps the most original and philosophically important critical account of hermeneutics of its philosophical status and historical development to appear since Gadamer s Truth and Method Choice A philosophical polemic of the highest order written in a language of unfailing verve and precision It will repay manyfold the labour of a slow and considered reading J M Coetzee Upstream