Paul Ricoeur's Philosophical Anthropology as Hermeneutics of Liberation : Freedom, Justice, and the Power of Imagination / Roger W.H. Savage.

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Book

Author/Creator:

Savage, Roger W. H., author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ricœur, Paul.

Liberty--Philosophy.

Liberty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

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Biography/History:

Roger W.H. Savage is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in hermeneutics, aesthetics, and politics. He is the author of Hermeneutics and Music Criticism and Music, Time, and Its Other: Aesthetic Reflections on Finitude, Temporality, and Alterity. He has also edited two books on the work of Paul Ricoeur: Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis, and Critique and Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body.

Contents:

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 ; Aesthetic Experience and the Wager; of Imagination 2; The Poetics of the Will and a Philosophical; Anthropology of the Capable Human Being 6; Summary Outline 9 1 Philosophical Anthropology, Poetics, ; and the Philosophy of the Will 15; Poetics and the Philosophy of the Will 16; Intermediacy, Fallibility, Fault 18; Finitude and Infinitude 23; Transcendental Reflection 25; Metaphor and Metaphysics 29 2 The Practical Synthesis: Character, Happiness; and Respect 42; Practical Synthesis 43; Practical Finitude 45; Happiness 53; Respect 57 3 Affective Fragility, Vulnerability, and the Capable; Human Being 66; The Restless Heart 67; Reason and Happiness 70; Fragility and Fallibility: Having, Power, Worth 74; viii Contents 4 The Wager of Imagination 89; Ideology, Violence, and Power 90; An Eschatology of Nonviolence 94; Negative Dialectics and the Principle of Hope 97; The Temporalization of History 101; The Force of the Present and the Horizon of; the Process of Freedom's Actualization 103 5 Singularity, Exemplarity, Universality 114 ; Aesthetic Experience 114; Mimesis and Truth 117; Singularity, Exemplarity, Communicability 121; Reason, Judgment, and Imagination 126 6 Toward a Hermeneutics of Liberation 136; The Idea of Humanity and the Aporia of the; Oneness of Time 137; Exemplarity and the Hermeneutics; of Testimony 142; The Imperative of Justice 149 7 Conclusions 160; Conviction and Belief 163; Is Freedom Possible? 168; Hospitality and Justice 173 Bibliography 185; Index 193

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9781000223064

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