Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason

Poetics, Praxis, and Critique

Contributions by Marcel Hénaff, Marc de Leeuw, Annalisa Caputo, David Pellauer, Anna Borisenkova, Todd S. Mei, George H. Taylor University of Pittsburgh, Roger W. H. Savage Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles, Marianne Moyaert, Richard Kearney Charles Seelig Professor, Timo Helenius Brown University Edited by Roger W. H. Savage Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles

Publication date:

16 December 2015

Length of book:

232 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

234x161mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780739191736

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.

Introduction: Paul Ricoeur and the Age of Hermeneutical Reason
Chapter 1. Marcel Hénaff, Labor, Social Justice, and Recognition: Around Paul Ricoeur
Chapter 2. Marc De Leeuw, The Anthropological Presupposition: Paul Ricoeur’s Search for the Just
Chapter 3. Annalisa Caputo, Paul Ricoeur, Martha Nussbaum and the “Incapability Approach”
Chapter 4. David Pellauer, Narrated Action Grounds Narrative Identity
Chapter 5. Anna Borisenkova, “Reading the City: from the Inhabitant to the Flâneur”
Chapter 6. Todd Mei, Convictions and Justification
Chapter 7. George Taylor, Prospective Political Identity
Chapter 8. Roger W. H. Savage, The Wager of Imagination and the Logic of Hope
Chapter 9. Marianne Moyaert, From Religious Violence to Interreligious Hospitality
Chapter 10. Richard Kearney, Ricoeur’s Wager of Flesh: Between Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
Chapter 11. Timo Helenius, The Will, the Body, and Sexuality: Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology of “Being Willing and Able”

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.