Freedom and Nature: The Voluntary and the Involuntary (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) - Softcover

Ricoeur, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810105349 ISBN 13: 9780810105348

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1966

Synopsis

This volume, the first part of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy of the Will, is an eidetics, carried out within carefully imposed phenomenological brackets. It seeks to deal with the essential structure of man's being in the world, and so it suspends the distorting dimensions of existence, the bondage of passion, and the vision of innocence, to which Ricoeur returns in his later writings. The result is a conception of man as an incarnate Cogito, which can make the polar unity of subject and object intelligible and provide a basic continuity for the various aspects of inquiry into man's being-in-the-world.

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About the Author

PAUL RICŒUR (1913–2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. As such his thought is situated within the same tradition as other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

ERAZIM V. KOHÁK is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Boston University.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1966
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810105349
• ISBN 13: 9780810105348
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 498