Passion for the Possible : Thinking With Paul Ricoeur

Treanor, Brian (EDT); Venema, Henry Isaac (EDT)

ISBN 10: 082323293X / ISBN 13: 9780823232932

Editore: Fordham University Press, 2010

Codice articolo 9567885-n

Riassunto:

Paul Ricoeur's entire philosophical project narrates a "passion for the possible" expressed in the hope that in spite of death, closure, and sedimentation, life is opened by superabundance, by how the world gives us much more than is possible. Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology is a phenomenology of human capacity, which gives onto the groundless ground of human being, namely, God. Thus the story of the capable man, beginning with original goodness held captive by a servile will and ending with the possibility of liberation and regeneration of the heart, underpins his passion for the more than possible.

The essays in this volume trace the fluid movement between phenomenological and religious descriptions of the capable self that emerges across Ricoeur's oeuvre and establish points of connection for future developments that might draw inspiration from this body of thought.

Informazioni sull'autore:
Brian Treanor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate (Fordham).

Henry Venema is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brandon University, in Canada. He is the author of Identifying Selfhood: Imagination, Narrative, and Hermeneutics in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur.

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Titolo: Passion for the Possible : Thinking With ...
Casa editrice: Fordham University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Brossura
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