Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century - The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur''s Dialectical Concept

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie N. Stiver Arel
• Assisted by: Stephanie N. Arel (Editor), Arel Stephanie N. (Editor), Dan R. Stiver (Editor), Stiver Dan R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2021
• EAN: 9781498577311
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7731-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Political science and theory