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"

1. The Just Between the Legal and the Good

Paul Ricoeur

1. The Plurality of Instances of Justice

Paul Ricoeur
Reply to Paul Ricoeur
Ronald Dworkin

1. Juridical Precedents and Reflective Judgment

Roger W. H. Savage

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

Guido Gorgoni

1. Symbolism and the Generativity of Justice

Antoine Garapon

1. Ricoeur, Narrative, and Legal Contingency

George H. Taylor

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

Marc De Leeuw

1. The Unbearable Between-ness of Law

Francis J. Mootz III

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

Geoffrey Dierckxsens

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

Marie-Hélène Desmeules

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

Hans Lindahl

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

Stephanie Arel

1. The Interaction Between Love and Justice in the Legal System

Walter Salles

1. Forgiveness at the Border of Law

Oliver Abel

1. Law and Evil in Paul Ricoeur's Thought

Bertrand Mazabraud
About the Contributors

About the author

Marc de Leeuw is senior lecturer in legal philosophy at the University of New South Wales.
George H. Taylor is emeritus professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh.
Eileen Brennan is lecturer of philosophy at the DCU Institute of Education at Dublin City University.

Product details

• Authors: Marc Taylor De Leeuw
• Assisted by: Brennan Eileen (Editor), Marc de Leeuw (Editor), Eileen Brennan (Editor), George H Taylor (Editor), Marc De Leeuw (Editor), Taylor George H. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2024
• EAN: 9781793600936
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-093-6
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Jurisprudence and general issues