Reading Ricoeur - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791475255 ISBN 13: 9780791475256

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2008

Synopsis

Introduces readers to the work of Paul Ricoeur, one of the twentieth century's leading philosophers.

In Reading Ricoeur, fourteen well-known scholars interpret, evaluate, and criticize the works of Paul Ricoeur, one of the twentieth century's most important and far-reaching philosophers. The contributors discuss Ricoeur's entire philosophical career: from his existentialist-phenomenology of the 1940s and '50s; his hermeneutics and critique of structuralism in the 1960s and '70s; his narrative and moral philosophy of the 1980s; his political and legal philosophy of the 1990s; his recent work on memory, forgiveness, and recognition; as well as his enduring interests in religious language and the problem of evil. The contributors not only explain the central concepts and structures of Ricoeur's philosophy, but they also bring him into dialogue with his contemporaries, including Sartre, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Rawls, and Lyotard. Reading Ricoeur demonstrates the central role of Paul Ricoeur in the development of twentieth-century philosophy.

About this title

About the Author

David M. Kaplan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas and the author of Ricoeur's Critical Theory, also published by SUNY Press.

From the Back Cover

In Reading Ricoeur, fourteen well-known scholars interpret, evaluate, and criticize the works of Paul Ricoeur, one of the twentieth century's most important and far-reaching philosophers. The contributors discuss Ricoeur's entire philosophical career: from his existentialist-phenomenology of the 1940s and '50s; his hermeneutics and critique of structuralism in the 1960s and '70s; his narrative and moral philosophy of the 1980s; his political and legal philosophy of the 1990s; his recent work on memory, forgiveness, and recognition; as well as his enduring interests in religious language and the problem of evil. The contributors not only explain the central concepts and structures of Ricoeur's philosophy, but they also bring him into dialogue with his contemporaries, including Sartre, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Rawls, and Lyotard. Reading Ricoeur demonstrates the central role of Paul Ricoeur in the development of twentieth-century philosophy.

"I fully believe that Ricoeur's work is crucial to contemporary theory. In philosophy, religious studies, aesthetics, humanities, and social sciences in general, Ricoeur has a clear place and this collection covers the wide range that is needed." -- Farhang Erfani, American University

Contributors include Olivier Abel, Patrick L. Bourgeois, Bernard Dauenhauer, Domenico Jervolino, David M. Kaplan, Richard Kearney, David E. Klemm, André LaCocque, James L. Marsh, David Rasmussen, Charles E. Reagan, William Schweiker, Pol Vandevelde, and Merold Westphal.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791475255
• ISBN 13: 9780791475256
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Kaplan David M.