Gadamer’s hermeneutics destroyed positivist epistemology before Foucault.
Evidence
The publication of Hans George Gadamer’s Truth and Method (1960) expanded the field into an even more exciting and fruitful domain of hermeneutics and, through a detailed philosophical discussion, posited the historicity of consciousness and the contingency of the human subject—and thus dealt a mortal blow to any remnant notion of positivist knowledge. Predicated on this long and sustained premise, Michel Foucault’s articulation of the relationship between modes of power and manners and discourses of knowledge production was articulated and handed over to Edward Said. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 489
Categorization
- QUESTION: Is Dabashi saying this intellectual lineage directly fed Said, or that it independently supports the same critique?
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 489