From Text to Action
Essays in Hermeneutics
Paul Ricoeur(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 12. January 2000
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-485-30064-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays is a sequel to Ricoeur's earlier volume, "The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in Hermeneutics 1" (1969, English edition 1989, Athlone). "From Text to Action" follows an original line of thought, passing from phenomenology to hermeneutics (defined by Ricoeur as "the general theory of interpretation") and from the hermeneutics of the text to the hermeneutics of action. It draws on the thought of Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer and incorporates ideas from the Social Sciences, the Philosophy of Language and Political Philosophy. The author, Paul Ricoeur, is a leading French thinker in the philosophy of language. His translated works include "The Symbolization of Evil" (1969) and "The Conflict of Interpretations" (Athlone, 1989).
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 149 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-485-30064-2 (9780485300642)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Content
On interpretation. Part 1 For a hermeneutical phenomenology: phenomenology and hermeneutics; the task of hermeneutics; the hermeneutical function of distanciation; philosophical hermeneutics and biblical hermeneutics. Part 2 From the hermeneutics of texts to the hermeneutics of action: what is a text?; the model of the text; imagination in discourse and in action; practical reason; initiative. Part 3 Ideology, utopia and politics: Hegel and Husserl on intersubjectivity; science and ideology; hermeneutics and the critique of ideology; ideology and utopia; ethics and politics.