Reading Ricoeur Through Law

This is the first collection of essays examining Paul Ricoeur's writings on law, bringing together eminent Ricoeur scholars from around the world to demonstrate the importance of Ricoeur's philosophy for the juridical field while offering new paths to extend and build on his work.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Ricoeur Through Law
Marc De Leeuw, George H. Taylor, Eileen Brennan

Introduction to Paul Ricoeur's "The Just Between the Legal and the Good"

The Just Between the Legal and the Good

Paul Ricoeur

The Plurality of Instances of Justice

Paul Ricoeur
Reply to Paul Ricoeur
Ronald Dworkin

Juridical Precedents and Reflective Judgment

Roger W. H. Savage

The Subject of Rights and Responsibility in Ricoeur's Legal Philosophy

Guido Gorgoni

Symbolism and the Generativity of Justice

Antoine Garapon

Ricoeur, Narrative, and Legal Contingency

George H. Taylor

Ricoeur's Juridical Anthropology: Law, Autonomy, and a Life Lived-in-Common

Marc De Leeuw

The Unbearable Between-ness of Law

Francis J. Mootz III

Law and Metadiscourse: Ricoeur on Metaphysics and the Ascription of Rights

Geoffrey Dierckxsens

Between Truth and Justice. Ricoeur on the Roles and Limits of Narrative in Legal Processes

Marie-Hélène Desmeules

Law and (Dis)empowerment: On Ricoeur's Phenomenology of Judging

Hans Lindahl

The "Crisis of Witnessing" and Trauma on the Stand: Attending to Survivors as an Obligation of Justice

Stephanie Arel

The Interaction Between Love and Justice in the Legal System

Walter Salles

Forgiveness at the Border of Law

Oliver Abel

Law and Evil in Paul Ricoeur's Thought

Bertrand Mazabraud
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Edited by Marc de Leeuw; George H. Taylor and Eileen Brennan - Contributions by Olivier Abel; Stephanie Arel; Eileen Brennan; Marie-Hélène Desmeules; Geoffrey Dierckxsens; Antoine Garapon; Guido Gorgoni; Marc de Leeuw; Hans Lindahl; Bertrand Mazabraud; Fr

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This is the first collection of essays examining Paul Ricoeur's writings on law, bringing together eminent Ricoeur scholars from around the world to demonstrate the importance of Ricoeur's philosophy for the juridical field while offering new paths to extend and build on his work.

Product details

• Authors: Marc De Leeuw, Marc Taylor De Leeuw
• Assisted by: Eileen Brennan (Editor), Marc De Leeuw (Editor), Marc de Leeuw (Editor), George H Taylor (Editor), George H. Taylor (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781793600912
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-091-2
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur; Studies in the Thought of Paul
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law