Paul Ricoeur: The Hermeneutics of Action

Abstract

"Previously published as a special issue of the journal Philosophy and social criticism, volume 21 (1995), number 5/6"--Title page verso. This contains 3 major essays by Ricoeur - on Europe, fragility and responsibility, and love and justice - followed by nine key essays by internationally known experts, to provide the reader with a tour of Ricoeur's work. Cover Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Essays by Paul Ricoeur; Reflections on a new ethos for Europe; Fragility and responsibility; Love and justice; Part II: Essays for Paul Ricoeur; Ricoeur between Heidegger and Lévinas; Gadamer and Ricoeur on the hermeneutics of praxis; Testimony and attestation; Refiguring Ricoeur: narrative force and communicative ethics; The other and the foreign; History and the question of identity: Kant, Arendt, Ricoeur; Beyond sovereignty and deconstruction: the storied self; Rethinking subjectivity: narrative identity and the self. Narrative imagination: between ethics and poeticsPart III: Review essays; Ricoeur and the political (Under consideration: Paul Ricoeur's Lectures I: Autour du politique); Lectures II and a survey of recent Ricoeur publications (Under consideration: Paul Ricoeur's Lectures II: La Contrée des philosophes and recent publications by L.E. Hahn (ed.), S. Clark, P.S. Anderson, W.J. Ellos and C. Schrag); Ricoeur's philosophical journey: its import for religion (Under consideration: Paul Ricoeur's Lectures III: Aux frontières de la philosophie); Olivier Mongin's Paul Ricoeur; Index.