Paul Ricoeur Honoring and Continuing the Work

by Erfani, Farhang; Altieri, Lorenzo; Anderson, Pamela; Bourgeois, Patrick; Dallmayr, Fred; Hoskins, Gregory; Jervolino, Domenico; Joy, Morny; Kaplan, David; Kearney, Richard; Kemp, Peter; Springs, Jason; Venema, Henry; Wall, John; Whitmire, John

• ISBN13: 9780739136560
• ISBN10: 0739136569
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-26
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This collection of essays is dedicated to the prolific career of Paul Ricœur. In his lifetime, Ricœur made significant contributions to many fields, such as theology, aesthetics, narratology, linguistics, and of course, philosophy. Within philosophy alone, he engaged many currents of thoughts, always providing careful and faithful analyses of philosophers while adding his own unique perspectives. Many essays in this anthology revisit Ricœur's own works, carefully placing him in his philosophical context, while providing new interpretations of questions that mattered to Ricœur, such as imagination, forgiveness, justice, and memory. Other essays, honoring Ricœur's own approach, bring him to dialogue with new questions, such as globalization, technology, and national memorials.

Author Biography

Farhang Erfani is assistant professor of philosophy at American University and research associate at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. He is the author of Aesthetics of Autonomy: Ricoeur and Sartre on Emancipation, Authenticity, and Selfhood and the forthcoming Iranian Cinema and Philosophy: Shooting Truth.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ricoeur Gives Rise to Thought	p. vii
Owl of Minerva Takes Flight: Obituary for Paul Ricoeur	p. 1
Love and Justice: A Memorial Tribute to Paul Ricoeur	p. 5
Paul Ricoeur and the Philosophy of Technology	p. 21
Twice Difficult Forgiveness	p. 35
Ricoeur, Poetics, and Religious Ethics	p. 47
A New Fragility: Ricoeur in the Age of Globalization	p. 61
Remembering the Battle of Gettysburg: Paul Ricoeur and the Politics of Memory	p. 85
A Feminist on Forgiveness: When (Where?) Love and Justice Come Apart	p. 105
Hope, Imagination, and Reflective Judgment: Paul Ricoeur and Immanuel Kant	p. 119
Oneself with Another: Following the Thread of Paul Ricoeur's The Course of Recognition	p. 135
In Search of a Poetics of the Will	p. 149
Paul Ricoeur and the Duty to Remember	p. 165
Texts, Worlds, and Translatability: Ricoeur among the Postliberals	p. 189
Foundation of Ethics Considered through the Ethics in the Century of Ricoeur	p. 217
Selected Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 239
About the Contributors	p. 245
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