Paul Ricoeur - The Hermeneutics of Action

Paul Ricoeur's work is of seminal importance to the development of hermeneutics, phenomenology and ideology critique in the human sciences. This major volume assembles leading scholars to address and explain the significance of this extraordinary body of work.

Opening with three key essays from Ricoeur himself, the book offers a fascinating tour of his work ranging across topics such as the hermeneutics of action, narrative force, the other and deconstruction while discussing his work in the context of such contemporary figures as including Heidegger, L[ac]evinas, Arendt and Gadamer. Paul Ricoeur is also published as Volume 21 Issue 5/6 of Philosophy and Social Criticism.

List of contents

Introduction - Richard Kearney
PART ONE: ESSAYS BY PAUL RICOEUR
Reflections on a New Ethos for Europe
Fragility and Responsibility
Love and Justice
PART TWO: ESSAYS FOR PAUL RICOEUR
Ricoeur between Heidegger and L[ac]evinas - Peter Kemp
Gadamer and Ricoeur on the Hermeneutics of Praxis - Domenico Jervolino
Testimony and Attestation - Jean Greisch
Refiguring Ricoeur - Mara Rainwater
Narrative Force and Communicative Ethics
The Other and the Foreign - Bernhard Waldenfels
History and the Question of Identity - Edi Pucci
Kant, Arendt, Ricoeur
Beyond Sovereignty and Deconstruction - Joseph Dunne
The Storied Self
Rethinking Subjectivity - David Rasmussen
Narrative Identity and the Self
Narrative Imagination - Richard Kearney
Between Ethics and Poetics
PART THREE: REVIEW ESSAYS
Ricoeur and the Political - Gary Madison
Lectures II and a Survey of Recent Ricoeur Publications - Robert D Sweeney
Ricoeur¿s Philosophical Journey - David Tracy
Its Import for Religion
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About the author

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Domenico Jervolino Rome
Jean Greisch Institut Catholique de Paris
Peter Kemp Centre for Ethics and Law Kobenhavn
Edi Pucci Arezzo Italy
Mara Rainwater University College Dublin
Bernard Waldenfels Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

Summary

This volume assembles leading scholars to address and explain the significance of Ricoeur's body of work. Opening with three key essays from Ricoeur himself, the book offers a tour of his work ranging across topics such as hermeneutics of action, narrative force, the other and deconstruction.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Kearney, Richard M. Kearney
• Assisted by: Richard C. Kearney (Editor), Richard M Kearney (Editor), Richard M. Kearney (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.1996
• EAN: 9780761951391
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5139-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Philosophy and Social Criticism series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology & anthropology, Philosophy of religion, Sociology and anthropology, Philosophy;Social Theory