Paul Ricoeur The Promise and Risk of Politics

by Dauenhauer, Bernard P.

• ISBN13: 9780847692378
• ISBN10: 084769237X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Paul Ricoeur, with Rawls, Walzer, and Habermas as some of his main interlocutors, has developed a substantial and distinctive body of political thought. On the one hand, it articulates a rich conception of the paradoxical character of the domain of politics. On the other, it provides a fresh approach to such major topics as the relationship among politics, economics, and ethics and between concern for universal human rights and respect for cultural plurality. His work, rooted as it is in Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, also provides resources for a fruitful rethinking of the issues at stake in the liberal-communitarian debate.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Roots: An Introduction	1	(18)
Ricoeur's Early Political Thought	19	(40)
Conceptual Advances	59	(40)
Action, Agency, and Identity in Ricoeur's Mature Philosophical Anthropology	99	(42)
From the Ethical Aim to the Moral Norm	141	(34)
Through the Moral Norm to Practical Wisdom	175	(36)
Political Fragility	211	(34)
Political Responsibility	245	(42)
Assessment	287	(40)
Bibliography	327	(2)
Index	329	(10)
About the Author	339