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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.
Review Essay: Ricoeur and the Political
Review Essay: Ricoeur and the Political
Paul Ricoeur, Lectures I: Autour du politique (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1991)
In addition to his work in basic philosophical issues over the last several decades, work which has earned for him a foremost place among the leading thinkers of our time, and in addition, as well, to his generally less well known but nevertheless extensive and highly influential writings on religious and theological topics, Paul Ricoeur has also pursued a lifelong interest in political issues. The essays gathered together in Lectures I: Autour du politique amply testify to this enduring interest on his part.
This is the first of three volumes of Ricoeur's collected papers. Befitting the hermeneut of facticity that Ricoeur is, these ‘readings’ are ...
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