Ricoeur, culture, and recognition : a hermeneutic of cultural subjectivity / Timo Helenius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helenius, Timo, author.

Series:

Studies in the thought of Paul Ricoeur

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ricœur, Paul.

Culture.

Human beings.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

xii, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

Ricoeur, Culture, and Recognition: A Hermeneutic of Cultural Subjectivity presents Paul Ricoeur's work-from its beginning to its end-as a cultural theory. Timo Helenius proposes a cultural hermeneutic that clarifies the cultural facilitation in a person's process of attaining a sense of being a human. Incorporating insights from Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, this exploration of human beings as being profoundly formed and influenced by the cultural condition also enables a new understanding of intercultural questions by revealing the common human condition that the various cultures manifest. This book will be of interest not only to philosophers, but also to scholars in theology, linguistics, cultural studies, and the social sciences. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Introduction 1

1 General Introduction 3

2 Ricoeur and the Question of Culture 11

The Culture/Civilization Confusion 13

A Brief History of the Culture Concept 16

3 Ricoeur and Postcritical Hermeneutics 23

Ricoeur's Tensional Hermeneutics 24

The Hermeneutic of Postcritical Innocence 26

The Hermeneutic of Reconfiguration 28

Mimesis 1

Mimesis 2

Mimesis 3

The Hermeneutics of Postcritical Understanding 33

Part II The Cultural Course of Recognition 37

4 Ricoeur and Cultural Anthropology 41

Ricoeur and Cultural-Symbolic Mediation 42

Ricoeur on Clifford Geertz 44

Ricoeur on Ernst Cassirer 46

5 A Hermeneutic of Symbolic Recognition 51

The Idea of Symbolic Recognition 53

The Gift of Symbolic Language 56

From Forgetfulness to Re-membering 60

6 The Course of Cultural Formation 67

The Course of Recognition and Anerkennung 69

Re-cognition: A Ricoeurian An-erkennung 72

Ricoeur and Cultural Formation 78

7 Reflections on re- 87

Part III Recognizing Selfhood in Cultural Objectivity 93

8 Anthropology and Objectivity 97

The Reflective Self: Pre-reflective Imputation and Self-objectification 98

An Authentic Choice as Practical Action: The Theatre of Cultural Milieu 100

The Spell: the Detour of Objectivity 103

9 The Objects of Human Works 109

The Synthesis under Objects: The Formal Unity of Consciousness 110

Ideal Self-consciousness and the Enigma of Respect 114

Cultural Objectivity and the "Signs of Human Being" 118

The Quest for Having

The Quest for Power

The Quest for Esteem

10 A Hermeneutic of Cultural Objects 129

Toward a Hermeneutic Reflection on the "Signs of Human Being" 130

An Analytic of Culture 133

A Hermeneutic of Culture 136

Having

Power

Esteem

11 Reflections on-con- 145

Part IV The Etho-Poetic Essence of Culture 151

12 Poetics and the Becoming of Cultural Being 157

The Poetic Ricoeur: the Origin 157

The Birth of Meaning as the Becoming of Our Being 160

Critical and Ontological Poetics 163

13 Poetics of Cultural Action 169

Explanation-Understanding as a Clarification of "Tensional" Poetics 170

Poetic Work: from Discourse to Cultural Action 173

The Poetics of Sociocultural Action 176

14 Etho-Poetics: The Essence of Cultural Existence 183

Appropriated Identity and the Ethics of Narrations 184

The Birth of an Ethico-Political Self: Cultural Recognition 187

The Limit: The Wholly Other 192

15 Reflections on -naissance 201

Part V The Fifth Act 207

A Responsive Self: Naïve Summation 211

Being Human: Reconfiguration and Re-Con-Naissance 214

Re-membering the Prefiguration

Con-joining as Configuration

Being Born with Refiguration: Naissance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Helenius, Timo, author. Ricoeur, culture, and recognition

ISBN:

9781498520935

1498520936

OCLC:

950611495