Knowledge and practical reason : Paul Ricoeur's way of thinking / Marcelino Agís Villaverde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agís Villaverde, Marcelino.

Series:

International studies in hermeneutics and phenomenology ; v. 5.

International studies in hermeneutics and phenomenology ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ricœur, Paul--Criticism and interpretation.

Ricœur, Paul.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

iii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wien : Lit, [2012]

Summary:

Villaverde (philosophy, U. of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) studied with French philosopher Ricoeur (1913-2005) and offers a broad review of his thinking. There is no grand narrative, no core ideas around which the Frenchman's career pivoted, he syas, because he made a point of not writing about anything more than once. He discusses the man and his philosophy, from personalism to phenomenology, the large detour of hermeneutics, and from hermeneutics to practical philosophy. There is no index. Distributed in North America by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

I The Man and his Philosophy

Chapter 1 Biographical Avatars of an Intellectual in the XX Century 17

A The blank page 17

B Memoirs from the war 21

C A professor in the post-war period 24

D University as a vocation 29

E The American experience 35

F A late recognition 38

Chapter 2 Stages of a Philosophical Project 43

A The years of formation and influences 44

B A visit to phenomenology: the fifties 46

C A wide hermeneutic itinerary: 1960-90 47

1 Primary hermeneutics 47

2 Interpretation and double sense 49

3 From the conflict of interpretations to the ontology of understanding 51

4 The world of the text 53

5 Metaphor as discourse 54

D The practical turn of philosophy (1990-2005) 55

E Reasons for an end 57

II From Personalism to Phenomenology

Chapter 3 The Personalist Thought: Ricoeur and Mounier 63

A Biographical confluences 64

B Ricoeur, interpreter of Mounier 70

1 The truth in historical action 70

2 Personalism dies 76

3 The person returns 80

Chapter 4 Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 87

A Phenomenology and Lifeworld: E. Husserl 88

1 Around the method 88

2 The Lifeworld 90

B Towards a hermeneutical phenomenology: M. Heidegger 93

1 The hermeneutics of facticity 94

C The world of text: Paul Ricoeur 97

1 Critical hermeneutics towards Husserlian idealism 98

2 The world of text 100

III The Large Detour of Hermeneutics

Chapter 5 The Hermeneutic Paths 107

A Hermeneutics and Ontology: the question of sense 107

B The original sources: myths and symbols 110

C Symbolism and double meaning 113

D Hermeneutics of the Text 117

E Metaphor and philosophical discourse 120

Chapter 6 The History of Interpreted Philosophy 127

A History and truth of Philosophy 128

B How was history written? 132

C Theory of the text, action and history 136

1 Text 136

2 Action 138

3 History 140

Chapter 7 The Hermeneutics of Oneself 145

A Narrative identity: history and fiction 147

B Personal identity: sameness and selfhood 149

C Personal identity and narrative identity 152

IV From Hermeneutics to Practical Philosophy

Chapter 8 The Just: Between Ethics and Hermeneutics 157

A Hermeneutics of Justice 157

1 Horizontal reading 157

2 Vertical reading 162

B Hermeneutic foundations of justice 164

Chapter 9 Guilt and Forgiveness: Difficult Forgetting 173

A Guilt 174

B Forgiveness 177

1 Depth of Guilt 179

2 The height of forgiveness 181

3 The odyssey of forgiveness: the difficult forgiveness 182

Chapter 10 Living until Death: Through the Eyes of Another 185

A Death: challenge and enigma 185

B God's Nostalgia 189

C Death: Knowledge and recognition 190

D The mirror of the Other 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3643900791

OCLC:

805545775

Publisher Number:

99952941051