Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis, and Critique

by Roger W. H. Savage (Editor), Marcel Hénaff (Contribution by), Marc De Leeuw (Contribution by), Annalisa Caputo (Contribution by), David Pellauer (Contribution by), Anna Borisenkova (Contribution by), Todd S. Mei (Contribution by), George Taylor (Contribution by), Roger W. H. Savage (Contribution by), Marianne Moyaert (Contribution by), Richard Kearney (Contribution by), Timo Helenius (Contribution by)

Overview

Poetics, Praxis and Critique: Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason addresses contemporary problems of justice, the recognition of disabled persons, the role of imagination in political judgment, the need for religious hospitality and carnal hermeneutics. The essays in this volume are a testament to the power of hermeneutical reason. Following Paul Ricoeur’s style of philosophizing, they explore innovative solutions to pressing issues of our time. Individually, these essays advance new perspectives on the anthropological presuppositions behind the requirement of justice, the role played by convictions and beliefs in pluralistic contexts, and the place of a post-critical religious faith. Together, they demonstrate the value of a hermeneutical mode of reasoning in an age in which conflicts, tensions and violence abound. Their thoughtful engagement with current challenges attests to this volume’s conviction that we, with others, have the ability to intervene in the course of the world to the benefit of all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739191743
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	12/16/2015
Series:	Antique Print Mysteries
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	246
File size:	987 KB

About the Author

Roger W. H. Savage is professor of systematic musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Marcel Hénaff is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego.
David Pellauer is Professor Emeritus in the Philosophy Department at DePaul University.
Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. His many publications include Anatheism: Returning to God after God (Columbia University Press, 2010), Debates in Continental Philosophy: Conversations with Contemporary Thinkers (Fordham UniversityPress, 2004), On Paul Ricoeur: The Owl of Minerva (Ashgate, 2005) and Navigations: Collected Irish Essays 1976-2006 (Syracuse University Press, 2007).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Marcel Hénaff, Labor, Social Justice, and Recognition: Around Paul Ricoeur

Chapter 3. Annalisa Caputo, Paul Ricoeur, Martha Nussbaum and the “Incapability Approach”
Flâneur”

Chapter 11. Timo Helenius, The Will, the Body, and Sexuality: Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology of “Being Willing and Able”

Editorial Reviews

Roger W. H. Savage has put together an important set of essays, which demonstrates various ways in which Ricoeur’s thought and work can offer solutions to a range of problems in contemporary practical philosophy. Each essay expertly considers new and pressing questions in this developing area of Ricoeur scholarship. But the collection is not simply a valuable contribution to how we might understand Ricoeur: it shows its readers intriguing new ways of thinking with and after the philosopher. It is a fine example of the continuing significance of hermeneutic reason as an interpretative approach.

Eileen Brennan

This fine book testifies to the ongoing relevance of the work of Paul Ricoeur. Engaging with wide-ranging contemporary issues, such as those of power, violence, capacities, fragility, justice, responsibility, and recognition, the various authors of this volume draw on Ricoeur’s intellect, wisdom, and compassion, to sustain this age of hermeneutic reason.

Morny Joy