Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination / Sophie Vlacos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vlacos, Sophie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ricœur, Paul--Criticism and interpretation.

Ricœur, Paul.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"To explain more is to understand better". This is the mantra by which French philosopher Paul Ricoeur lived and worked, establishing himself as one of the twentieth century's most lucid and broad-ranging critical thinkers. A prisoner of war at 27, Ricoeur was also Dean of Paris X Nanterre during the student disturbances of 1968. In later years he became an outspoken champion of social justice. In work as in life, Ricoeur was committed to the challenges of conflict and the prospect of authentic resolution. Deeply indebted to phenomenology and the hermeneutical tradition of Heidegger and Gadamer, Ricoeur was also an advocate of structural linguistics, of psychoanalysis, and a rare conversant with the Anglo-American analytic tradition. This v. explores how literature and the conflicts of literary-theoretical debate inform Ricoeur's theory of imagination and understanding, and how Ricoeur's unique mode of literary reflection resolves the conflicts of literature's theoretical heyday, presaging a new direction for literary studies"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

"A critical history of Ricoeur and his relationship to literary theories, past, present and future"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Preface

Introduction: Mediation, Moderation And Bias

Chapter One: Ricoeur At Nanterre. 1.1 Ricoeur at Nanterre ; 1.2 The Decline of Existentialism ; 1.3 Structuralism and the Ricoeurian Critique ; 1.4 Textualism ; 1.5 "Returning the Sign to the Universe"; Benveniste and the Ricoeurian Departure

Chapter Two: Hermeneutics and the Romantic Prejudice. 2.1 The Romantic Prejudice ; 2.2 A "Misguided Kantianism" and the Hermeneutical Critique ; 2.3 The New Critical Heritage

Chapter Three: Hermeneutics and Ontology. 3.1 Ricoeur and Ontology ; 3.2 Being and Time; Hermeneutic Phenomenology ; 3.3 Heidegger's French Receptions ; 3.4 France and the "Heidegger Question" ; 3.5 Poetic Freedom of Another Kind ; 3.6 Ricoeur's Critique of Heidegger

Chapter Four: The Poetry of Reason: Ricoeur and the Theoretical Imagination. 4.1 Interpretation and the Semantics of Discourse ; 4.2 "The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought" ; 4.3 Metaphor and the Question of Philosophy ; 4.4 Speculative Discourse and Critical Autonomy

Chapter Five: The ethics of Imagination. 5.1 Ethical Turns in Philosophy and Literature ; 5.2 Wisdom and Poetry; Phronesis and Poiesis ; 5.3 "...we have never lived enough": Nussbaum's Literary Ethics ; 5.4 Towards a Poetics of Will: The Ontological and Imaginative Significance of Narrative ; 5.5 Narrative Emplotment as Transcendental Schema Made Visible ; 5.6 Narrative Identity and the Ethics of Selfhood ; 5.7 "Je est un Autre": Ricoeur, Poststructural Modernist

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781628926859

1628926856

9781441119551

1441119558

OCLC:

869281837