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Publication date:
26 August 2016Length of book:
254 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498520942
Ricoeur, Culture, and Recognition: A Hermeneutic of Cultural Subjectivity presents Paul Ricoeur’s work—from its beginning to its end—as a form of a cultural theory. Timo Helenius proposes a cultural hermeneutic that clarifies the cultural facilitation in a person’s process of attaining a sense of being a human. Incorporating insights from Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, this exploration of human beings as being profoundly formed and influenced by the cultural condition also enables a new understanding of intercultural questions by revealing the common human condition that the various cultures manifest. Ricoeur, Culture, and Recognition will be of interest not only to philosophers, but also to scholars in theology, linguistics, cultural studies, and the social sciences.
This book makes a compelling argument that we have not understood Ricoeur until we have understood his work as a cultural theorist, and that we cannot understand that work without understanding the role played by recognition in his hermeneutics. As such, it represents a provocation—though a friendly one—to the more established work on Ricoeur’s philosophical anthropology. This is a book that springs from a close and careful reading of Ricoeur’s work, and will be a source insight and debate for philosophers pursuing his hermeneutic project.