
From Text to Action
Essays in Hermeneutics II
Paul Ricoeur(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 13. November 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-8264-4395-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book will be useful to those coming to the field of hermeneutics for the first time, as well as those already familiar with Ricoeur's work.Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris X, Nanterre, and a leading figure in twentieth-century French philosophy. "From Text to Action" provides an invaluable companion to Ricoeur's classic text, "The Conflict of Interpretations". Here he further develops his general theory of interpretation in relation to his own philosophical background and influences: Hegel, Husserl, Gadamer and Weber. This is a hugely important work from a key figure in contemporary philosophy that will be of interest to those starting out in the field of hermeneutics, as well as those already familiar with Ricoeur's work."The Continuum Impacts" are seminal works by the finest minds in contemporary thought, including Adorno, Badiou, Derrida, Heidegger and Deleuze. They are works of such power that they changed the philosophical and cultural landscape when they were first published and continue to resonate today.
They represent landmark texts in the fields of philosophy, popular culture, politics and theology.
They represent landmark texts in the fields of philosophy, popular culture, politics and theology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
385 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-4395-3 (9780826443953)
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Persons
Paul Ricoeur was a leading French thinker best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. His first major work was Philosophy of Will published in the UK in 1980. Other translated works include The Symbolization of Evil and The Conflict of Interpretations. Born in 1913 he was a professor at Nanterre and Strasbourg. In 2004, he was awarded the second John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences (shared with Jaroslav Pelikan). Ricoeur died in 2005.
Content
Acknowledgements; Translator's Note; Preface; On Interpretation; Part I: For a Hermeneutical Phenomenology; 1. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics; 2. The Task of Hermeneutics; 3. The Hermeneutical Function of Distanciation; 4. Philosophical Hermeneutics and Biblical Hermeneutics; Part II: From the Hermeneutics of Texts to the Hermeneutics of Action; 5. What Is a Text?; 6. Explanation and Understanding; 7. The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text; 8. Imagination in Discourse and in Action; 9. Practical Reason; 10. Initiative; Part III: Ideology, Utopia and Politics; 11. Hegel and Husserl on Intersubjectivity; 12. Science and Ideology; 13. Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology; 14. Ideology and Utopia; 15. Ethics and Politics; Notes.