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This book brings together ten women philosophers to examine Paul Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology, focusing on the embodied dimension of existence, to reveal its ontological and ethical significance. The contributors examine Ricoeur's work in a variety of contexts, such as freedom and recognition, love and consent, and our inescapable finitude.
List of contents
Introduction: Paul Ricœur: Reception of an Ontology of Finitude and Capability, by Beatriz Contreras Tasso and Sophie-Jan Arrien
Part I: Affectivity and Embodiment
Chapter 1: The Space of Affectivity in the Architecture of the Capable Self, by Beatriz Contreras Tasso
Chapter 2: Recognition and Consent: Images of Love in Paul Ricœur, by Francesca d'Alessandris
Chapter 3: The Birth and Symbolism of Passivity: Thinking with Paul Ricœur, by Carla Canullo (translated by Marco Dozzi)
Chapter 4: Body, Freedom and Recognition in the Beginnings of Paul Ricœur Philosophy, by Alejandra Bertucci and María Luján Ferrari
Part II: Identity and Narrative
Chapter 5: Are There Authentic Self-Narratives? A Discussion with Paul Ricœur and Judith Butler, by Chiara Pavan
Chapter 6: Mirrors of Identity, by Monica Gorza
Chapter 7: No more Storyteller? Narrative Theories of Paul Ricœur and Walter Benjamin in Dispute, by Jeanne Marie Gagnebin (translated by Samuel Lelievre)
Part III: Opening perspectives
Chapter 8: The Natural World as a Vulnerable Household: Paul Ricœur and Erazim Kohák in Dialogue, by Maria Cristina Clorinda Vendra
Chapter 9: Just Distance in Interaction. Asymmetries and Abuses, by Gaëlle Fiasse
Chapter 10: Thinking Finitude as a Finite Thinker. On the Philosophical Practice of Paul Ricœur, by Sophie-Jan Arrien
About the author
Sophie-Jan Arrien is full professor of philosophy at Université Laval, Québec.
Beatriz Contreras Tasso is tenured professor of philosophy at Pontifical Catholic University.
