Reading Ricoeur / edited by David M. Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplan, David M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ricœur, Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 262 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Summary:

In Reading Ricoeur, fourteen well-known scholars interpret, evaluate, and criticize the works of Paul Ricoeur, one of the twentieth century's most important and far-reaching philosophers. The contributors discuss Ricoeur's entire philosophical career: from his existentialist-phenomenology of the 1940s and '50s; his hermeneutics and critique of structuralism in the 1960s and '70s; his narrative and moral philosophy of the 1980s; his political and legal philosophy of the 1990s; his recent work on memory, forgiveness, and recognition; as well as his enduring interests in religious language and the problem of evil. The contributors not only explain the central concepts and structures of Ricoeur's philosophy, but they also bring him into dialogue with his contemporaries, including Sartre, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Rawls, and Lyotard. Reading Ricoeur demonstrates the central role of Paul Ricoeur in the development of twentieth-century philosophy.

Contents:

Ricoeur's phenomenology of freedom as an answer to Sartre / James L. Marsh

What makes us think? two views / Bernard P. Dauenhauer

Philosophy and kerygma : Ricoeur as reader of the Bible / David E. Klemm

On the hermeneutics of evil / Richard Kearney

Paul Ricoeur and the prospects of a new humanism / William Schweiker

Ricoeur's hermeneutical phenomenology of religion / Merold Westphal

Love proceeds by poetic amplification / André LaCocque

The challenge of the "such as it was" : Ricoeur's theory of narratives / Pol Vandevelde

Ricoeur and Lyotard in postmodern dialogue : symbol and the sublime / Patrick L. Bourgeois

Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics : from critique to poetics / Oliver Abel

Ricoeur's critical theory / David M. Kaplan

Justice and interpretation / David M. Rasmussen

Rethinking Ricoeur : the unity of his work and the paradigm of translation / Domenico Jervolino

Binding and loosing : promising and forgiving; amnesty and amnesia / Charles Reagan.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7914-7792-4