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Ricoeur, literature and imagination /

""To explain more is to understand better". This is the mantra by which French philosopher Paul Ricoeur lived and worked, establishing himself as one of the twentieth century's most lucid and broad-ranging critical thinkers. A prisoner of war at 27, Ricoeur was also Dean of Paris...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vlacos, Sophie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
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  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Moderation, Mediation, Bias; 1 Ricoeur at Nanterre; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The decline of existentialism; 1.3 Structuralism and the Ricoeurian critique; 1.4 Textualism; 1.5 'Returning the Sign to the Universe': Benveniste and the Ricoeurian departure; 2 Hermeneutics and the Romantic Prejudice; 2.1 The Romantic prejudice; 2.2 A 'misguided Kantianism' and the hermeneutical critique; 2.3 The New Critical heritage; 3 Hermeneutics and Ontology; 3.1 Ricoeur and ontology; 3.2 Being and Time: Hermeneutic phenomenology; 3.3 Heidegger's French receptions.
  • 3.4 France and the 'Heidegger question'3.5 Poetic freedom of another kind; 3.6 Ricoeur's critique of Heidegger; 4 The Poetry of Reason: Ricoeur and the Theoretical Imagination; 4.1 Interpretation and the semantics of discourse; 4.2 'The symbol gives rise to thought'; 4.3 Metaphor and the question of philosophy; 4.4 Speculative discourse and critical autonomy; 5 The Ethics of Imagination; 5.1 Ethical turns in philosophy and literature; 5.2 Wisdom and poetry: Phronesis and poiesis; 5.3 ' ... we have never lived enough': Nussbaum's literary ethics.
  • 5.4 Towards a poetics of will: The ontological and imaginative significance of narrative5.5 Narrative emplotment as transcendental schema made visible; 5.6 Narrative identity and the ethics of selfhood; 5.7 Je est un autre: Ricoeur, poststructural modernist; Bibliography; Index.