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Paul's Ricoeur's Lectures on Ideology and Utopia are more pertinent than ever forty years later. The chapters in this book reflect the lectures' original intricacy as the authors not only insightfully analyze them but also creatively apply them.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Re-Encountering Ricoeur
1.John Arthos - Ricoeur and the Political
2.Roger W. H. Savage - Surplus Value, Superabundance of Meaning: Ideology, the Political Paradox, and the Structure of Action
3.Dan R. Stiver - Renewing the "Period of Effervescence": Utopia as Ideology Critique
Part II: Ricoeur in Dialogue
4.Recep Alpyagil - Metaphor and Imagination: A Comparative Study of Ricoeur and Ibn 'Arabi through "Seeing As"
5.Linda Lee Cox - 'Holding Open a Place for Possibility': Paul Ricoeur, Fredric Jameson, and the Language of Utopia
Part III: Ricoeur and Embodied Social Critique
6.Nel van den Haak - Social Imagination, Materiality, and Political Discourse Introduction
7.Stephanie Arel - Embodied Extremist Rhetoric: The Circulation of Power in Ideology and Utopia
Part IV: Expanding Ricoeur
8.Annalisa Caputo - Rethinking Migratory Phenomena: Between Critique of Ideology and Utopia of Hospitality
9.Greg S. Johnson - Real Utopian Politics
10.George H. Taylor - Why Ideology and Utopia Today?
About the Contributors
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Edited by Stephanie N. Arel and Dan R. Stiver - Contributions by Recep Alpyagil; Stephanie N. Arel; John Arthos; Annalisa Caputo; Linda L. Cox; Nel van den Haak; Greg Johnson; Roger W. H. Savage; Dan R. Stiver and George H. Taylor
Summary
Paul’s Ricoeur’s Lectures on Ideology and Utopia are more pertinent than ever forty years later. The chapters in this book reflect the lectures’ original intricacy as the authors not only insightfully analyze them but also creatively apply them.
