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This major volume assembles leading scholars to address and explain the significance of Paul Ricoeur's extraordinary body of work. Ricoeur's work is of seminal importance to the development of hermeneutics, phenomenology, and ideology critique in the human sciences. Opening with three key essays from Ricoeur himself–on Europe, fragility and responsibility, and love and justice–this fascinating volume offers a tour of his work ranging across topics such as the hermeneutics of action, narrative force, and the other and deconstruction, while discussing his work in the context of such contemporary thinkers as Heidegger, Levinas, Arendt, and Gadamer. Offering a very useful overview of Paul Ricoeur's enormous contribution to modern thought, Paul Ricoeur will be invaluable for students and academics across the social and human sciences and philosophy.
Beyond Sovereignty and Deconstruction: The Storied Self
Beyond Sovereignty and Deconstruction: The Storied Self
No topic is more central or contested in contemporary philosophy than ‘the self’; it is a main stake, for instance, in debates between ‘liberals’ and ‘communitarians’ as well as between defenders of modernity and the Enlightenment against its postmodernist critics. In addressing this topic in the present article my procedure is schematic. I first outline a classic modern notion of the self and then a more recent perspective which comprehensively negates it. Interesting creases in each of these two views are ironed out only because I intend them to serve a dialectical purpose in clarifying a third – and, I believe, more adequate – view of the self, which I go on ...
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