Paul Ricoeur The Hermeneutics of Action

by Richard Kearney

• ISBN13: 9780761951384
• ISBN10: 0761951385
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-25
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

Paul Ricoeur's work is of seminal importance to the development of hermeneutics, phenomenology and ideology critique in the human sciences. This major volume assembles leading scholars to address and explain the significance of this extraordinary body of work.Opening with three key essays from Ricoeur himself, the book offers a fascinating tour of his work ranging across topics such as the hermeneutics of action, narrative force, the other and deconstruction while discussing his work in the context of such contemporary figures as including Heidegger, L[ac]evinas, Arendt and Gadamer. Paul Ricoeur is also published as Volume 21 Issue 5/6 of Philosophy and Social Criticism.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Richard Kearney

PART ONE: ESSAYS BY PAUL RICOEUR

Reflections on a New Ethos for Europe

Fragility and Responsibility

Love and Justice

PART TWO: ESSAYS FOR PAUL RICOEUR

Ricoeur between Heidegger and L[ac]evinas - Peter Kemp

Gadamer and Ricoeur on the Hermeneutics of Praxis - Domenico Jervolino

Testimony and Attestation - Jean Greisch

Refiguring Ricoeur - Mara Rainwater

Narrative Force and Communicative Ethics

The Other and the Foreign - Bernhard Waldenfels

History and the Question of Identity - Edi Pucci

Kant, Arendt, Ricoeur

Beyond Sovereignty and Deconstruction - Joseph Dunne

The Storied Self

Rethinking Subjectivity - David Rasmussen

Narrative Identity and the Self

Narrative Imagination - Richard Kearney

Between Ethics and Poetics

PART THREE: REVIEW ESSAYS

Ricoeur and the Political - Gary Madison

Lectures II and a Survey of Recent Ricoeur Publications - Robert D Sweeney

Ricoeur's Philosophical Journey - David Tracy

Its Import for Religion

Oliver Mongin's/f003 Paul Ricoeur - William Richardson