Paul Ricoeurs Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology - Vulnerability, Capability, Justice

This book contextualizes Paul Ricoeur's philosophy through the lens of philosophical anthropology. It shows how Ricoeur renews this tradition by developing a hermeneutic of human self-expression, a phenomenology of the capable human, and an ethics of life lived "with and for others in just institutions."

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Paul Ricoeur and the Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology
Part I Anthropology: The Question of the Human
Chapter 1: The German School of Philosophical Anthropology
Chapter 2: Philosophical Anthropology as Existential Phenomenology
Part II Poetics: A Phenomenological-Hermeneutic of Human Self-Expression
Chapter 3: Being, Narrative, and Identity
Chapter 4: Persons, Selfhood, and Otherness
Chapter 5: Memory, Remembering, and Historicity
Part III Ethics: A Life Lived with and among Others
Chapter 6: Moral Imperatives, Solicitude and Critical Phronesis
Chapter 7: The Just, Forgiveness, and Unconditional Affirmation
Conclusion: The Affirmation of Life between Vulnerability and Capability
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

By Marc de Leeuw

Summary

This book contextualizes Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy through the lens of philosophical anthropology. It shows how Ricoeur renews this tradition by developing a hermeneutic of human self-expression, a phenomenology of the capable human, and an ethics of life lived “with and for others in just institutions.”

Product details

• Authors: Marc De Leeuw
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781498595582
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9558-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion & beliefs, Social & cultural anthropology