The Narrative Path: The Later Works of Paul Ricoeur

Kemp, T. Peter and David Rasmussen (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0262111470 / ISBN 13: 9780262111478

Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1989

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Lower corner gently bumped, spine sunned. Previous owner's name inside the front wrap with highlighting to one section. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Narrative Path: The Later Works of Paul Ricoeur
• Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262111470
• ISBN 13: 9780262111478
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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Synopsis

This book provides a perceptive analysis of the "narrative turn" that led Paul Ricoeur to his magisterial work "Time and Narrative. "Ricoeur has for many years explored the intersections of diverse strands of European philosophy, but it is his recent work that has attracted the most discussion and engendered the most debate in Europe and America. "The Narrative Path "explores the roots and meaning of that work. Two of the book's five essays reach back to Ricoeur's earlier work to clarify his themes: Richard Kearney concentrates on the role of imagination in hermeneuties, and Maria Villela Petit explores the development of Ricoeur's concept of history from "History and Truth "to "Time and Narrative." Two essays analyze the significance of Ricoeur's reflections on metaphoric and narrative language: Serge Mellinger looks at the relationship between time and poetry from the point of view of Ricoeur's discussions of the connection between time and narrative, and T. Peter Kemp extends Ricoeur's analysis to argue that narration is indispensable to ethics. The book concludes with a reflection by Ricoeur himself on the linguistic, practical, and ethical dimensions of human beings, and with a bibliography of Ricoeur's work in English. T. Peter Kemp teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. "The Narrative Path" is based on a special issue of the journal "Philosophy and Social Criticism, "edited by David Rasmussen, who is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.