The Conflict of Interpretations (Continuum Impacts)

Ricoeur, Paul

ISBN 10: 0826477097 / ISBN 13: 9780826477095

Published by Continuum, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Conflict of Interpretations (Continuum Impacts)
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826477097
• ISBN 13: 9780826477095
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Paul Ricoeur (1913-) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at the University of Paris X, Nanterre. One of the foremost contemporary French philosophers, his work is influenced by Husserl, Marcel and Jaspers and is particularly concerned with symbolism, the creation of meaning and the interpretation of texts.

The Conflict of Interpretations ranges across an astonishing diversity of fields: structuralism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, religion and faith. The essays it comprises are bound together by Ricoeur's customary concern for interpretation and language and all bear the stamp of the systematic and critical thinking which has become his hallmark in contemporary philosophy.

Edited by Don Ihde

About the Author

Paul Ricoeur was a leading French thinker best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. His first major work was Philosophy of Will published in the in 1980. Other translated works include The Symbolization of Evil and The Conflict of Interpretations. Born in 1913 he was a professor at and . In 2004, he was awarded the second John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences (shared with Jaroslav Pelikan). Ricoeur died in 2005.