Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative: The Creative Tension Between Love and Justice

by Hall, W. David

• ISBN13: 9780791471449
• ISBN10: 0791471446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

This book addresses the thought of Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), paying particular attention to the creative tension between love and justice as principle themes in his work. Dealing with these issues chiefly in his writings on religion, Ricoeur explored the tension between the biblical ideals of the golden rule-the religious formulation of a principle of justice-and the love command. Author W. David Hall shows how these ideals continually speak to each other in Ricoeur's work, how they operate creatively on each other, and how each serves as a corrective to the perversions of the other. Hall maintains that although issues of love and justice became prominent comparatively late in Ricoeur's corpus, they provide a sustained trajectory throughout his work and are an important interpretive key for understanding Ricoeur's intellectual project as a whole. Book jacket.

Author Biography

W. David Hall is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Centre College and coeditor (with John Wall and William Schweiker) of Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Situated Reading	p. 4
Intrepretational Structure	p. 12
Agency: The Structures of Selfhood	p. 19
The Structure of Agency	p. 20
Capability: The Voluntary and the Involuntary	p. 22
Identity: Idem and Ipse	p. 25
Attestation: Acting and Suffering Selves	p. 28
Meaning: The Narrative Configuration of Existence	p. 37
The Configuration of Meaning	p. 40
Understanding: Active Receptivity	p. 43
Possibility: Actuality and Potentiality	p. 52
Affirmation: A Hermeneutics of Meaningful Existence	p. 63
Practice: Practical Experience and Moral Concern	p. 81
Practical Experience	p. 83
Responsibility: Imputation and Solicitude	p. 86
Ethics: Power and Violence	p. 93
Witness: Conviction and Fidelity	p. 105
Conscience: Conviction and Fidelity in Theological Perspective	p. 113
The Testimony of Conscience	p. 115
Basic Structures: The Logic of Equivalence and the Logic of Superabundance	p. 126
Configuration: The Golden Rule and the Love Command	p. 133
Experience: Autonomy and Theonomy	p. 135
The Economy of the Gift and the Poetic Imperative	p. 143
The Economy of the Gift	p. 144
Love and Justice	p. 150
The Poetic Imperative	p. 153
Notes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 195
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