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A comparative study of why certain events become and are remembered as crises while others are not.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Curse of Hermes The Present as a Foreign Country A Hermeneutic Primer The Essence of Indecision What if They Gave a Crisis and Nobody Came The Past as Prologue Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

RON HIRSCHBEIN is Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of War & Peace Studies at California State University, Chico. He has also served as Visiting Professor at the Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego, the Program in Peace & Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the United Nations University in Austria.

Reviews

"The research by Professor Hirschbein is a very important step in rectifying this need for new and viable theory to meet the challenges of the contemporary era. His work is especially important in that he breaks out of the restrictive mold that confined studies of international political complexities to political and social science perspectives by expanding his concerns to the humanistic. With this, he leads a groundswell movement that is reconfiguring the face of research today."-C.R. Nordstrom Peace and Conflict Studies Notre Dame University

?And in response to the charge that this opens the way to relativism, he offers a succinct discussion of criteria for evaluating contending interpretations (pp. 95-8), which rounds off a chapter that can be strongly recommended to those seeking an introduction to the hermeneutic approach.?-The International History Review

"And in response to the charge that this opens the way to relativism, he offers a succinct discussion of criteria for evaluating contending interpretations (pp. 95-8), which rounds off a chapter that can be strongly recommended to those seeking an introduction to the hermeneutic approach."-The International History Review