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Ricoeur and the Negation of Happiness

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Ricour lectured and wrote for over twenty years on negation (''Do I understand something better if I know what it is not, and what is not-ness?'') and never published his extensive writings on this subject. Ricour concluded that there are multiple forms of negation; it can, for example, be the other person (Plato), the not knowable nature of our world (Kant), the included opposite (Hegel), apophatic spirituality (Plotinus on not being able to know God) and existential nothingness (Sartre). Ricour, working on Kant, Hegel and Sartre, decided that all these forms of negation are incompatible and also fatally flawed because they fail to resolve false binaries of negative: positive. Alison Scott-Baumann demonstrates how Ricour subsequently incorporated negation into his linguistic turn, using dialectics, metaphor, narrative, parable and translation in order to show how negation is in us, not outside us: language both creates and clarifies false binaries. He bestows upon negation a strong and central role in the human condition, and its inevitability is reflected in his writings, if we look carefully. Ricour and the Negation of Happiness draws on Ricour''s published works, previously unavailable archival material and many other sources.Alison Scott-Baumann argues that thinking positively is necessary but not sufficient for aspiring to happiness - what is also required is affirmation of negative impulses: we know we are split by contradictions and still try to overcome them. She also demonstrates the urgency of analysing current socio-cultural debates about wellbeing, education and equality, which rest insecurely upon our loose use of the negative as a category mistake.>

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Bibliographic Note
Prologue
Introduction
1. Reading Ricoeur on Negation
2. The Negation Papers
3. Heraclitus, Parmenides and Plato: Before the Logic of Negation
4. Hegel's Dialectical Dominance
5. Kant: Negation in a Philosophy of Limits
6. Affirmative Negatives: Nietzsche, Sartre, Deleuze, Murdoch - and Plotinus
7. Happiness - and you, what will you do?
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index


Product details

Authors Alison Scott Baumann, Alison Scott-Baumann, Dr Alison Scott-Baumann
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 24.10.2013
 
EAN 9781780936369
ISBN 978-1-78093-636-9
No. of pages 200
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day

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