Hermeneutics of Contemplative Silence - Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning

This book probes the texts of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein to disclose the role of silence in the creation of meaning. To understand and live out of contemplative awareness as a way to think through transformative human experience is an ethical and spiritual task, one that warrants explanation and interpretation.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Prelude: A Poetic Presence
Chapter 1: Fallible Human
Chapter 2: Fallibility Gives Rise to Hermeneutics
Chapter 3: Capable Human and the Role of Silence in the Creation of Meaning
Chapter 4: The Practice of Contemplative Silence as a Historical Phenomenon
Chapter 5: Edith Stein and the Carmelite Tradition: Blazing a Prophetic Path in the Light of Love
Chapter 6: The Practice of Contemplative Silence as a Transformative Spiritual and Ethical Activity
Chapter 7: The Meaning of Capable Human
Chapter 8: A Song of Hermeneutical Existence
Postlude: Towards a Third Naiveté
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Michele Kueter Petersen

Summary

This book probes the texts of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein to disclose the role of silence in the creation of meaning. To understand and live out of contemplative awareness as a way to think through transformative human experience is an ethical and spiritual task, one that warrants explanation and interpretation.

Product details

• Authors: Michele Kueter Petersen
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781793640000
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-000-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur; Studies in the Thought of Paul
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics, Translation & interpretation, Topics in philosophy, Christian life and practice, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Translation and interpretation