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Dimitri Ginev

    January 1, 1956 – January 1, 2021
    Die Verschmelzung der Untersuchungsbereiche
    Die Mehrdimensionalität geisteswissenschaftlicher Erfahrung
    Die Geisteswissenschaften im europäischen Diskurs
    Practices and possibilities
    Scientific conceptualization and ontological difference
    Hermeneutic Realism
    • 2019

      Ginev works out a conception of the constitution of scientific objects in terms of hermeneutic phenomenology. Recently there has been a revival of interest in hermeneutic theories of scientific inquiry. The present study is furthering this interest by shifting the focus from interpretive methods and procedures to the kinds of reflexivity operating in scientific conceptualization. According to the book's central thesis, a reflexive conceptualization enables one to take into consideartion the role which the ontic-ontological difference plays in the constitution of scientific objects. The book argues for this thesis by analyzing the formation of objects of inquiry in a range of scientific domains stretching from highly formalized domains where the quest for objects' identities is carried out in terms of objects' emancipation from structures to linguistic and historiographic programs that avoid procedural objectification in their modes of conceptualization. The book sets up a new strategy for the dialogue between (the theories of) scientifc inquiry and hermeneutic phenomenology.

      Scientific conceptualization and ontological difference
    • 2018

      Hermeneutic Realism

      Reality Within Scientific Inquiry

      • 291 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      This study recapitulates basic developments in the tradition of hermeneutic and phenomenological studies of science. It focuses on the ways in which scientific research is committed to the universe of interpretative phenomena. It treats scientific research by addressing its characteristic hermeneutic situations, and uses the following basic argument in this treatment: By demonstrating that science’s epistemological identity is not to be spelled out in terms of objectivism, mathematical essentialism, representationalism, and foundationalism, one undermines scientism without succumbing scientific research to “procedures of normative-democratic control” that threaten science’s cognitive autonomy. The study shows that in contrast to social constructivism, hermeneutic phenomenology of scientific research makes the case that overcoming scientism does not imply restrictive policies regarding the constitution of scientific objects.

      Hermeneutic Realism
    • 2013

      Practices and possibilities

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      The essays in this collection pull out a few threads from the enormous complexity of “practices-possibilities” problematic. They address the problematic in terms of hermeneutic phenomenology. At stake are the issues of the constitution of meaningful objects by means of interpretative appropriation of possibilities. While becoming confi gured in horizons of possibilities, interrelated practices project constantly possibilities. The interplay of practices’ projection and appropriation of possibilities is the kernel of a hermeneutic theory of meaning constitution. The author’s aim is to integrate this theory in several scientifi c research programs. The book is compiled from the author’s lengthy experience in collaborating with research teams working at projects in hermeneutic phenomenology of science, the double hermeneutics in the construction of practice theory, the existential spatiality in the social sciences, and the hermeneutic projects for political science.

      Practices and possibilities
    • 2010

      Die verschiedenen Ansätze und Methoden geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung in den Ländern Zentral- und Osteuropas stehen im Mittelpunkt der Beiträge dieses Bandes. Dabei werden nicht nur methodologische und wissenschaftstheoretische Aspekte der Begriffs- und Theoriebildung genauer beleuchtet, sondern auch historische und sozio-politische Kontexte der Entstehung geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschungsprogramme behandelt. Dabei wird deutlich, dass in den ost- und zentraleuropäischen akademischen Institutionen eine Reihe von Prozessen in Gang sind, die zu einer Verflechtung epistemologischer und „nach-ideologischer“ Transformationen der Forschung ebenso wie der akademischen Lehrpläne beitragen. Die Aufklärung der „Geisteswissenschaften im osteuropäischen Diskurs“ schließt auch den Versuch mit ein, einen neuen Status der Forschungsergebnisse in der Öffentlichkeit anzusprechen und eine Kontextualisierung der Forschungsprobleme in öffentlichen Debatten zu erreichen. Der Herausgeber: Dimitri Ginev, Prof. Dr., Studium von Medizin, Kunstgeschichte und hermeneutischer Methodologie in Sofia, wo er als außerordentlicher Universitätsprofessor lehrt. Forschungsaufenthalte und Gastprofessuren in Marburg, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bremen, Bochum, Leipzig, Melbourne und Pittsburgh sowie an der Western Kentucky University, der Penn State University und der Catholic University of America. Seit 1995 Mitglied der New York Academy of Sciences.

      Die Geisteswissenschaften im europäischen Diskurs