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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.
Narrative Imagination: Between Ethics and Poetics
Narrative Imagination: Between Ethics and Poetics
Imagination has been an abiding, if often inconspicuous, preoccupation of Paul Ricoeur. In most of his works Ricoeur speaks less of imagination itself than of its multifarious expressions in symbol, metaphor, myth, dream, narrative and the social imaginary. This indirect approach is, I suspect, a scruple of hermeneutic detour inspired by the Kantian conviction that imagination is an ‘art hidden in the depths of nature … a blind but indispensable faculty of the human soul’. If imagination indeed recurs in the dramatis personae of Ricoeur's work, it usually comes on stage masked, doffs a variety of costumes, and generally prefers the discreet voice of prompter to that of central performer.
In his conclusion to ‘Metaphor ...
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