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Paul Ricoeur / Karl Simms.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Routledge critical thinkersPublication details: London : New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: xii, 155 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0415236363 (hbk.)
  • 9781032296517
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 21 SIM
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Contents:
Cover Page Half Title Page Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Series Editor’s preface Why Ricoeur? Key Ideas 1 Good and Evil 2 Hermeneutics 3 Psychoanalysis 4 Metaphor 5 Narrative 6 Ethics 7 Politics and Justice After Ricoeur Further Reading Works cited Index
Summary: Paul Ricoeur is one of the most wide-ranging thinkers to emerge in the twentieth century. He has developed a unique 'theory of reading' or hermeneutics, which extends far beyond the reading of literary works to build into a theory for the reading of 'life'. For this reason, his work has impacted not only upon literary studies, but upon such disciplines as philosophy, psychoanalysis, history, religion, legal studies and politics. This introductory guide: * details Ricoeur's most significant contributions to contemporary critical thought * provides an intellectual context to his key ideas * explores the debate around his work on good and evil, psychoanalysis, metaphor, narrative, politics and justice * suggests the continuing relevance of Ricoeur's thought and examines the increasing interest in his work across a range of disciplines. Karl Simms also provides a guide to further reading, which offers advice on Ricoeur's publications and relevant secondary texts. Refreshingly clear and impressively comprehensive, Paul Ricoeur is the essential guide to an essential theorist.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Series Editor’s preface
Why Ricoeur?
Key Ideas
1 Good and Evil
2 Hermeneutics
3 Psychoanalysis
4 Metaphor
5 Narrative
6 Ethics
7 Politics and Justice
After Ricoeur
Further Reading
Works cited
Index

Paul Ricoeur is one of the most wide-ranging thinkers to emerge in the twentieth century. He has developed a unique 'theory of reading' or hermeneutics, which extends far beyond the reading of literary works to build into a theory for the reading of 'life'. For this reason, his work has impacted not only upon literary studies, but upon such disciplines as philosophy, psychoanalysis, history, religion, legal studies and politics. This introductory guide: * details Ricoeur's most significant contributions to contemporary critical thought * provides an intellectual context to his key ideas * explores the debate around his work on good and evil, psychoanalysis, metaphor, narrative, politics and justice * suggests the continuing relevance of Ricoeur's thought and examines the increasing interest in his work across a range of disciplines. Karl Simms also provides a guide to further reading, which offers advice on Ricoeur's publications and relevant secondary texts. Refreshingly clear and impressively comprehensive, Paul Ricoeur is the essential guide to an essential theorist.

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