On the Elective Affinity Between Pragmatism and Hermeneutics: An Introduction

It has become commonplace to attest that the past few years have been marked by a wide-ranging epistemic crisis. Not least since January 2017, when then Counselor to the U.S. President Kellyanne Conway referred to “alternative facts” regarding the size of the crowd at Donald Trump’s inauguration, scholars in the fields of philosophy, media studies, and American cultural and literary studies have reoriented their research agendas towards analyzing and potentially dissolving that crisis. Concer...