Truth and Method
A highly scholarly and philosophical romp through some of the key issues confronting this website. Not for the faint of mind, but extremely reassuring for real intellectuals who may have noticed that something is generally fishy in the state of AcaDenmark.
The book starts like this: "The logical self-reflection that accompanied the development of the human sciences in the nineteenth century is wholly governed by the model of the natural sciences."
And ends like this: "… There is undoubtedly no understanding that is free of all prejudices, however much the will of our knowledge must be directed toward escaping their thrall.… This especially applies to the human sciences, but it does not mean that they are less scientific; on the contrary it justifies the claim to special humane significance that they have always made. The fact that in such knowledge the knower's own being comes into play certainly shows the limits of method, but not of science. Rather, what the tool of method does not achieve must – and really can – be achieved by a discipline of questioning and inquiring, a discipline that guarantees truth."
More power to any who wish to tackle the pages in-between!