Paul Ricoeur's pedagogy of pardon : a narrative theory of memory and forgetting / Maria Duffy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duffy, Maria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory (Philosophy).

Forgiveness.

Reconciliation.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Narration (Rhetoric).

Hermeneutics.

Ricur, Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Where conflict arises from the clash of cultures, memory also becomes a tool to help resolve and heal past wounds. Ricoeur provides a hermeneutical key to examine conflicting narratives so that some shared truths can be arrived at in order to begin afresh. As the many Truth Commissions around the world illustrate; revisiting the past has a positive benefit in steering history in a new direction after protracted violence. A second deeper strand in the book is the connection between Paul Ricoeur and John Paul II. Both lived through the worst period of modern European history (Ricoeur a Pri

Contents:

CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; 1. SITUATING NARRATIVE: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT; 2. ETHICAL BEING: THE STORIED SELF AS MORAL AGENT; 3. RECONCILED BEING: NARRATIVE AND PARDON; 4. PEDAGOGIES OF PARDON IN PRAXIS; 5. TOWARDS A NARRATIVE PEDAGOGY OF RECONCILIATION; 6. RICOEUR'S LEGACY: A PRAXIS OF PEAGE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF TERMS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-173) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612876868

9781282876866

1282876864

9781441193360

1441193367

OCLC:

676697861