Identifying Selfhood

Identifying Selfhood provides the first sustained treatment of the development of Paul Ricoeurs decentered formulation of selfhood from his earliest works to his most recent. For Henry Venema, Ricoeurs affirmation that consciousness is always rooted in the signs, symbols, and texts that precede the hermeneutical project of self-recovery and discovery provides the thread that links all of Ricoeurs philosophical inquiries together. However, as Venema argues, Ricoeurs hermeneutic is caught up in the semantics of identity to such an extent that selfhood is confused and often equated with the textuality of the reflective process and is never dealt with on the intimate level of the reflexive structure of selfhood in relation to otherness. In the end, Ricoeurs formulation of alterity identifies the other within the circle of the self-same.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Henry Isaac Venema
• Editore: State University Press of New York (SUNY)
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2000
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 228 mm x 14 mm
• Peso: 280 g
• Serie: Suny Series, McGill Studies in
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia