A Companion to Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature

A Companion to Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781498578899
ISBN-13 : 1498578896
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Synopsis A Companion to Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature by : Scott Davidson

Paul Ricoeur’s first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work, but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of scholars, A Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first book-length study to focus exclusively on Freedom and Nature. It helps readers to understand this complex work by providing careful textual analysis of specific arguments in the book and by situating them in relation to Ricoeur’s early influences, including Merleau-Ponty, Nabert, and Ravaisson. But most importantly, this book demonstrates that Freedom and Nature remains a compelling and vital resource for readers today, precisely because it resonates with recent developments in the areas of embodied cognition, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of the will. Freedom and Nature is fundamentally a book about embodiment, and it situates the human body at the crossroads of activity and passivity, motivation and causation, the voluntary and the involuntary. This conception of the body informs Ricoeur’s unique treatment of topics such as effort, habit, and attention that are of much interest to scholars today. Together the chapters of this book provide a renewed appreciation of this important and innovative work.

Freedom and Nature

Freedom and Nature
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 542
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ISBN-10 : 0810105349
ISBN-13 : 9780810105348
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Synopsis Freedom and Nature by : Paul Ricoeur

This volume, the first part of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy of the Will, is an eidetics, carried out within carefully imposed phenomenological brackets. It seeks to deal with the essential structure of man's being in the world, and so it suspends the distorting dimensions of existence, the bondage of passion, and the vision of innocence, to which Ricoeur returns in his later writings. The result is a conception of man as an incarnate Cogito, which can make the polar unity of subject and object intelligible and provide a basic continuity for the various aspects of inquiry into man's being-in-the-world.

A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man

A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781498587129
ISBN-13 : 1498587127
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man by : Scott Davidson

Fallible Man is the second book in Paul Ricoeur’s early trilogy on the will and the most accessible of his early writings. While the descriptive approach of Freedom and Nature set aside all normative questions, Fallible Man removes those brackets to examine the bad will, asking what makes evil a possibility. Combining rigor and originality, Ricoeur locates the possibility of evil in a self that is fundamentally in conflict with itself. Edited by Scott Davidson, A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man clarifies and contextualizes the central arguments developed in Ricoeur’s philosophy of the will, providing insight into his formative influences and themes. The collection gathers an international group of scholars who specialize in Ricoeur’s thought to shed light on an impressive range of themes from Fallible Man that resonate with contemporary debates in philosophy and religion.

A Companion to Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil

A Companion to Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9781498587150
ISBN-13 : 1498587151
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil by : Scott Davidson

The Symbolism of Evil is the final book in Ricoeur’s early trilogy on the will. While Freedom and Nature sets aside normative questions altogether and Fallible Man examines the question of what makes the bad will possible, here Ricoeur takes up the question of evil in its actuality. What is the nature of the will that has succumbed to evil? The question of evil resists reflection and remains inscrutable, leading Ricoeur to proceed indirectly through a study of the abundant resources contained in symbols and myths. Symbols, as Ricoeur famously says, “give rise to thought” and thereby open up a field of meanings which help to inform a philosophical reflection on evil. This hermeneutics of symbols signals an important shift in Ricoeur’s philosophical trajectory, which increasingly turns to language and the various forms of discourse which harbor multiple meanings. The contributors to this volume, edited by Scott Davidson, highlight a wide range of important themes in Ricoeur’s treatment of the symbolics of evil that resonate with current topics in contemporary philosophy and religion.

From Text to Action

From Text to Action
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9780810109926
ISBN-13 : 0810109921
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis From Text to Action by : Paul Ricœur

With his writings on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Marxism, ideology, and religion, Paul Ricoeur has single-handedly redefined and revitalized the hermeneutic tradition. From Text to Action is an essential companion to the now classic The Conflict of Interpretations. Here, Ricoeur continues and extends his project of constructing a general theory of interpretation, positioning his work in relation to its own philosophical background: Hegel, Husserl, Gadamer, and Weber. He also responds to contemporary figures like K.O. Apel and Jürgen Habermas, connecting his own theorization of ideology to their version of ideology critique.

A Companion to Continental Philosophy

A Companion to Continental Philosophy
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 706
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ISBN-10 : 9780631190134
ISBN-13 : 0631190139
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Continental Philosophy by : Simon Critchley

Covering the complete development of post-Kantian Continental philosophy, this volume serves as an essential reference work for philosophers and those engaged in the many disciplines that are integrally related to Continental and European Philosophy.

Fallible Man

Fallible Man
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Publisher : Chicago, Regnery
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106015467779
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Synopsis Fallible Man by : Paul Ricœur

Book 1 of part 2 of the author's Philosophy of the will. Book I: Fallible Man -- Part II: Finiture and Guilt.

The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics

The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 644
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ISBN-10 : 9781118529638
ISBN-13 : 1118529634
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics by : Niall Keane

A Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original essays from leading international scholars that provide a definitive historical and critical compendium of philosophical hermeneutics. Offers a definitive historical, systematic, and critical compendium of hermeneutics Represents state-of-the-art thinking on the major themes, topics, concepts and figures of the hermeneutic tradition in philosophy and those who have influenced hermeneutic thought, including Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty Explores the art and theory of interpretation as it intersects with a number of philosophical and inter-disciplinary areas, including humanism, theology, literature, politics, education and law Features contributions from an international cast of leading and upcoming scholars, who offer historically informed, philosophically comprehensive, and critically astute contributions in their individual fields of expertise Written to be accessible to interested non-specialists, as well asprofessional philosophers

The Symbolism of Evil

The Symbolism of Evil
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 0807015679
ISBN-13 : 9780807015674
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Symbolism of Evil by : Paul Ricœur

"According to Ricoeur, the most primal and spontaneous symbols of evil are defilement, sin and guilt ... Ricoeur moves from the elementary symbols of evil into the rich world of myths ... and he ends by suggesting that the clue to the relation between philosophy to mythology is to be found in the aphorism 'The symbol gives rise to the thought' ... Ricoeur's method and argument are too intricate and rich to assess in so short a review. Suffice it to say that this is the most massive accomplisment of any philosopher within the ambience of Christian faith since the appearance of Gabriel Marcel" - Sam Keen, The Christian Century

Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur

Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9783319334264
ISBN-13 : 3319334263
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur by : Scott Davidson

Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur: Between Text and Phenomenon calls attention to the dynamic interaction that takes place between hermeneutics and phenomenology in Ricoeur’s thought. It could be said that Ricoeur’s thought is placed under a twofold demand: between the rigor of the text and the requirements of the phenomenon. The rigor of the text calls for fidelity to what the text actually says, while the requirement of the phenomenon is established by the Husserlian call to return “to the things themselves.” These two demands are interwoven insofar as there is a hermeneutic component of the phenomenological attempt to go beyond the surface of things to their deeper meaning, just as there is a phenomenological component of the hermeneutic attempt to establish a critical distance toward the world to which we belong. For this reason, Ricoeur’s thought involves a back and forth movement between the text and the phenomenon. Although this double movement was a theme of many of Ricoeur’s essays in the middle of his career, the essays in this book suggest that hermeneutic phenomenology remains implicit throughout his work. The chapters aim to highlight, in much greater detail, how this back and forth movement between phenomenology and hermeneutics takes place with respect to many important philosophical themes, including the experience of the body, history, language, memory, personal identity, and intersubjectivity.