On Paul Ricoeur : narrative and interpretation

Wood, David, editor

ISBN 10: 0415513367 / ISBN 13: 9780415513364

Editore: London: Routledge, 2011

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Wood, David, editor. On Paul Ricoeur : narrative and interpretation. London: Routledge, 2011. Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature. Paperback, near fine. Covers clean and binding strong and tight. Frontispiece b/w photograph. xiii, 209pp., contents clean and bright. Paul Ricoeur (1913 2005) is a distinguished French philosopher of the twentieth century, one whose work has been widely translated and discussed across the world. In addition to his academic work, his public presence as a social and political commentator, particularly in France, led to a square in Paris being named in his honor on the centenary of his birth in 2013. In the course of his long career he wrote on a broad range of issues. A major theme that runs through Ricoeur s writings is that of a philosophical anthropology. Ricoeur came to formulate this as the idea of the capable human being . With it he seeks to give an account of the fundamental capabilities and vulnerabilities that human beings display in the activities that make up their lives, and to show how these capabilities enable responsible human action and life together. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

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• Titolo: On Paul Ricoeur : narrative and interpretation
• Editore: London: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415513367
• ISBN 13: 9780415513364
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Near Fine

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Riassunto

This book examines the later work of Paul Ricoeur, particularly his major work, Time and Narrative . The essays, including three pieces by Ricoeur himself, consider this important study, extending and developing the debate it has inspired. Time and Narrative is the finest example of contemporary philosophical hermeneutics and is one of the most significant works of philosophy published in the late twentieth century. Paul Ricoeur's study of the intertwining of time and narrative proposes and examines the possibility that narrative could remedy a fatal deficiency in any purely phenomenological approach. He analysed both literary and historical writing, from Proust to Braudel, as well as key figures in the history of philosophy: Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger. His own recognition of his limited success in expunging aporia opens onto the positive discovery of the importance of narrative identity, on which Ricoeur writes here. Other contributors take up a range of different topics: Tracing Ricoeur's own philosophical trajectory; reflexively applying the narrative approach to philosophy, or to his own text; reconstructing his dialectic of sedimentati and tradition. An essential companion to Time and Narrative , this collection also provides an excellent introduction to Ricoeur's later work and to contemporary works in philosophical hermeneutics.

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David Wood