From Ricoeur to action : the socio-political significance of Ricoeur's thinking

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Title:

From Ricoeur to action : the socio-political significance of Ricoeur's thinking

Author:

Mei, Todd S.

ISBN:

9781441159731

Publication Information:

New York : Continuum, c2012.

Physical Description:

x, 265 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction / Todd S. Mei -- pt. One Capability I -- ch. 2 From Ricoeur to Life: `Living Up to Death' with Spinoza, but also with Deleuze / Pamela Sue Anderson -- ch. 3 From Metaphor to the Life-World: Ricoeur's Metaphoric Subjectivity / Fiona Tomkinson -- ch. 4 Ricoeur and the Capability of Modern Technology / David Lewin -- pt. Two Capability II -- ch. 5 The Course of Racial Recognition: A Ricoeurian Approach to Critical Race Theory / L. Sebastian Purcell -- ch. 6 The Long Road to Recognition: Paul Ricoeur and Bell Hooks on the Development of Self-Esteem / Scott Davidson -- pt. Three Utopia -- ch. 7 To Think Utopia With and Beyond Paul Ricoeur / Vicky Iakovou -- ch. 8 Ricoeur versus Ricoeur? Between the Universal and the Contextual / George H. Taylor -- ch. 9 Turn Around and Step Forward: Environmentalism, Activism and the Social Imaginary / Brian Treanor --

Contents note continued: ch. 10 States of Peace: Ricoeur on Recognition and the Gift / Christopher Lauer -- Interlude -- ch. 11 Ricoeur's Atemwende. A Reading of `Interlude: Tragic Action' in Oneself as Another / David Fisher -- pt. Four The Theological -- ch. 12 The Unsurpassable Dissensus: The Ethics of Forgiveness in Paul Ricoeur's Work / Olivier Abel -- ch. 13 Examining Canonical Representations: The `Exceptionalism' of Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Bid for an Ethical Canon / Colby Dickinson.

Personal Subject:

Ricœur, Paul.

Subject Term:

Social conflict -- History -- 21st century.

Social sciences -- Philosophy.

Political science -- Philosophy.

Added Author:

Mei, Todd S.

Lewin, David.

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From Ricoeur to Action engages with the thinking of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) in order to propose innovative responses to 21st-century problems actively contributing to global conflict. Ricoeur's ability to draw from a diverse field of philosophers and theologians and to provide mediation to seemingly irreconcilable views often has both explicit and implicit practical application to socio-political questions. Here an international team of leading Ricoeur scholars develop critical yet productive responses through the development of Ricoeur's thought with respect to such topics as race, environmental ethics, technology, political utopia and reinterpreting religion.

Representing a new generation of Ricoeur scholarship that attempts to move beyond an exegetical engagement with his philosophy, this collection of original essays examines key problems in the 21st-century and the ways in which Ricoeur's philosophy understands the subtleties of these problems and is able to offer a productive response. As such it presents an elucidation of the practical significance of Ricoeur's thinking and an innovative contribution to resolving socio-political conflicts in the 21st century.