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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 ¿apek
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
Edited by Scott Davidson - Contributions by Jean-Luc Amalric; Jakub Capek; Scott Davidson; Natalie Depraz; Geoffrey Dierckxsens; Adam Graves; Grégori Jean; Michael Johnson; Johann Michel; Eftichis Pirovolakis; Michael Sohn and Marc-Antoine Vallée
