Paul Ricoeur
The Hermeneutics of Action
Edited by:
- Richard Kearney - Boston College, USA, University College, Dublin, Ireland, University of Paris, Sorbonne, France, Australian Catholic University, Australia, University of Nice
April 1996 | 224 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This major volume assembles leading scholars to address and explain the significance of Paul Ricoeur's extraordinary body of work. Ricoeur's work is of seminal importance to the development of hermeneutics, phenomenology, and ideology critique in the human sciences. Opening with three key essays from Ricoeur himself--on Europe, fragility and responsibility, and love and justice--this fascinating volume offers a tour of his work ranging across topics such as the hermeneutics of action, narrative force, and the other and deconstruction, while discussing his work in the context of such contemporary thinkers as Heidegger, Levinas, Arendt, and Gadamer.
Offering a very useful overview of Paul Ricoeur's enormous contribution to modern thought, Paul Ricoeur will be invaluable for students and academics across the social and human sciences and philosophy.
Richard Kearney
Introduction
PART ONE: ESSAYS BY PAUL RICOEUR
Reflections on a New Ethos for Europe
Fragility and Responsibility
Love and Justice
PART TWO: ESSAYS FOR PAUL RICOEUR
Peter Kemp
Ricoeur between Heidegger and L[ac]evinas
Domenico Jervolino
Gadamer and Ricoeur on the Hermeneutics of Praxis
Jean Greisch
Testimony and Attestation
Mara Rainwater
Refiguring Ricoeur
Bernhard Waldenfels
The Other and the Foreign
Edi Pucci
History and the Question of Identity
Joseph Dunne
Beyond Sovereignty and Deconstruction
David Rasmussen
Rethinking Subjectivity
Richard Kearney
Narrative Imagination
PART THREE: REVIEW ESSAYS
Gary Madison
Ricoeur and the Political
Robert D Sweeney
Lectures II and a Survey of Recent Ricoeur Publications
David Tracy
Ricoeur's Philosophical Journey
William Richardson
Oliver Mongin's Paul Ricoeur