Reading Ricoeur

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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.

Introduction: “Reading Ricoeur”
David M. Kaplan

1. Ricoeur’s Phenomenology of Freedom as an Answer to Sartre”
James L. Marsh

2. What Makes Us Think? Two Views
Bernard Dauenhauer

3. Philosophy and Kerygma: Ricoeur as Reader of the Bible
David E. Klemm

4. On the Hermeneutics of Evil
Richard Kearney

5. Paul Ricoeur and the Prospects of a New Humanism
William Schweiker

6. Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Religion
Merold Westphal

7. Love Proceeds by Poetic Amplification
André LaCocque

8. The Challenge of the “such as it was”: Ricoeur’s Theory of Narratives”
Pol Vandevelde

9. Ricoeur and Lyotard in Postmodern Dialogue: Symbol and the Sublime
Patrick L. Bourgeois

10. Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics: From Critique to Poetics
Olivier Abel

10. Ricoeur’s Critical Theory
David M. Kaplan

12. Justice and Interpretation
David Rasmussen

13. Rethinking Ricoeur: The Unity of His Work and the Paradigm of Translation”
Domenico Jervolino

14. Binding and Loosing, Promising and Pardoning, Memory and Forgetfulness
Charles E. Reagan

Contributors

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Éthique et morale
• Ethique et morale
• Philosophy
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 24 juillet 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791477922
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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READING Ricoeur

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READING Ricoeur

Edited by D avid M. K aplan

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À la mémoire de Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005)

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Introduction: Reading Ricoeur David M. Kaplan

1. Ricoeur’s Phenomenology of Freedom as an Answer to Sartre James L. Marsh

2. What Makes Us Think? Two Views Bernard P. Dauenhauer

Contents

3and Kerygma: Ricoeur as Reader of the Bible. Philosophy David E. Klemm

4the Hermeneutics of Evil. On Richard Kearney

5. Paul Ricoeur and the Prospects of a New Humanism William Schweiker

6Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Religion. Ricoeur’s Merold Westphal

7. Love Proceeds by Poetic Amplification André LaCocque

8. The Challenge of the “such as it was”: Ricoeur’s Theory of Narratives Pol Vandevelde

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9. Ricoeur and Lyotard in Postmodern Dialogue: Symbol and the Sublime Patrick L. Bourgeois

10.Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics: From Critique to Poetics Olivier Abel

11. Ricoeur’s Critical Theory David M. Kaplan

12.Justice and Interpretation David M. Rasmussen

13.Rethinking Ricoeur: The Unity of His Work and the Paradigm of Translation Domenico Jervolino

14.Binding and Loosing: Promising and Forgiving; Amnesty and Amnesia Charles Reagan

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Introduction: Reading Ricoeur

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aul Ricoeur was many things in his life: French Protestant, pacifist, P prisoner of war, professor of philosophy, author of over500articles and thirty books, recipient of honorary degrees from thirty universities, and winner of dozens of international awards and prizes, including the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy and the John W. Kluge Prize, some- times known as the “Nobel Prize for humanists.” The scope of Ricoeur’s work is truly breathtaking. The topics he addressed himself to —in tremendous detail—over his sixty year philosophical career include: exis- tentialism, phenomenology, philosophical anthropology, ontology, hermeneutics, biblical hermeneutics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, narrative theory, critical theory, philosophy of action, philosophy of history, moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of law, to name just some of the philosophical topics Ricoeur published in. He is widely recognized as among the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, moving comfortably within the worlds of French philosophy, German philosophy, Anglo-American philosophy, and the history of philosophy. He was also a socially engaged intellectual who wrote nonacademic articles about the political events of the day, such as fascism and pacifism in the1940s, culture and colonialism in the1960s, and memory and forgiveness in the1990s. Ricoeur wrote on such a bewilderingly wide range of subjects that very few of us can fully understand the scope of his intellectual project. The task of understanding Ricoeur’s work is not made any easier by his philosophical style, which often leaves his readers puzzled, searching for his voice amid his massive scholarly writings. It is often difficult to find a philosophy unique to Paul Ricoeur. While clearly an original thinker, his major works take the form of lengthy studies of others. He intially appears to be more like a commentator than a creative philoso- pher. Whenever Ricoeur takes on a problem, he usually explains its historical development, carefully considering the positions of his inter-

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