Companion to Ricoeur''s Freedom and Nature

The international contributors to this volume discuss Paul Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature.They cover important influences on Ricoeur's early thought and connecting it to current issues in embodied cognition and the philosophy of will, the companion promotes a renewed appreciation of the contemporary relevance of this groundbreaking work.

List of contents

Editor's Introduction: Freedom and Nature, Then and Now
Scott Davidson

Part I: Historical Influences

1. Ricoeur and Merleau-Ponty: From Perception to Action
Marc-Antoine Vallée
2. Act, Sign and Objectivity: Jean Nabert's Influence on the Ricoeurian Phenomenology of the Will
Jean-Luc Amalric
3. Ravaisson and Ricoeur on Habit
Jakub Capek
4. The Influence of Aquinas's Psychology and Cosmology on Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature
Michael Sohn

Part II: Key Themes

5. The Paradox of Attention: The Action of the Self upon Itself
Michael A. Johnson
6. The Status of the Subject in Ricoeur's Phenomenology of Decision
Johann Michel
7. Volo, ergo sum: Ricoeur Reading Maine de Biran on Effort and Resistance, the Voluntary and the Involuntary
Eftichis Pirovolakis
8. On Habit
Grégori Jean
9. The Phenomenon of Life and its Pathos
Scott Davidson

Part III: New Trajectories

10. A Descriptive Science of First-Person Experience: For an Experiential Phenomenology
Natalie Depraz
11. Ricoeur's Take on Embodied Cognition and Imagination: Enactivism in Light of Freedom and Nature
Geoffrey Dierckxsens
12. Freedom and Resentment and Ricoeur: Towards a Normative-Narrative Theory of Agency
Adam J. Graves

About the author

Johann Michel is Professor of hermeneutics and social theory at the University of Poitiers and is affiliated with the EHESS in Paris. He is member of the scientific council of the Fonds Ricoeur and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Specialist of hermeneutics and social theory, he is author of many books in French, translated into several languages, including Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Davidson
• Assisted by: Scott Davidson (Editor), Davidson Scott (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498578882
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7888-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur; Studies in the Thought of Paul; Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur; Studies in the Thought of Paul
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Ethics & moral philosophy, Topics in philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism