Paul Ricoeur geldt als een van de meest vooraanstaande filosofen van de 20e eeuw, wiens uitgebreide werk zich voornamelijk richt op filosofische antropologie en het menselijk vermogen tot handelen. Hij onderzocht de mogelijkheden van zelfinzicht door onze relatie met de wereld en anderen, waarbij hij noties van onmiddellijke zelfdoorzichtigheid of volledige zelfbeheersing verwierp. Ricoeurs methodologie evolueerde van existentiële fenomenologie naar hermeneutische fenomenologie, met de nadruk op het feit dat alle verstaanbaarheid en zelfinzicht worden bemiddeld door taal, symbolen en teksten. Zijn benadering onderstreept de interpretatieve aard van menselijke kennis en bestaan.
The book delves into the conflict between history and truth, exploring how history gains meaning through universality and systematic understanding. However, it posits that this same universality can undermine the unique experiences of individuals, leading to a tension between collective narratives and personal significance. This investigation highlights the complex relationship between historicity and the search for meaning in human lives.
At the time of his death in 2005, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur was regarded as one of the great thinkers of his generation. This work continues and expands on the work Ricoeur began with his little ethics in Oneself as Another and The Just. It is also suitable for understanding the development of Ricoeur's thought in his final years.
Recognition, though it figures profoundly in our understanding of objects and persons, identity and ideas, has never before been the subject of a single, sustained philosophical inquiry. This work seeks to develop nothing less than a proper hermeneutics of mutual recognition.
Focusing on the essential structure of human existence, this volume explores the concept of man as an incarnate Cogito, aiming to clarify the relationship between subject and object. By employing a phenomenological approach, it temporarily sets aside the complexities of existence, such as passion and innocence, to provide a foundational understanding of humanity's being in the world. This work lays the groundwork for Ricoeur's later explorations, offering insights into the continuity of various inquiries related to human existence.
In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.
Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern.Ricoeur finds a "healthy circle" between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent that it portrays temporal experience. Ricoeur proposes a theoretical model of this circle using Augustine's theory of time and Aristotle's theory of plot and, further, develops an original thesis of the mimetic function of narrative. He concludes with a comprehensive survey and critique of modern discussions of historical knowledge, understanding, and writing from Aron and Mandelbaum in the late 1930s to the work of the Annales school and that of Anglophone philosophers of history of the 1960s and 1970s."This work, in my view, puts the whole problem of narrative, not to mention philosophy of history, on a new and higher plane of discussion."—Hayden White, History and Theory "Superb. . . . A fine point of entrance into the work of one of the eminent thinkers of the present intellectual age."—Joseph R. Gusfield, Contemporary Sociology
This volume features Paul Ricoeur's lectures on Plato and Aristotle from 1953-54, exploring their metaphysics and the ontological foundations of Western philosophy. Ricoeur challenges the simplistic view of their relationship, offering a nuanced analysis that reveals continuity and opposition between their ideas.
Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. Oneself as Another, the clearest account of his "philosophical ethics," substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals.Focusing on the concept of personal identity, Ricoeur develops a hermeneutics of the self that charts its epistemological path and ontological status.
John B. Thompson's collection of translated essays forms an illuminating introduction to Paul Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory.
The most accessible of Ricoeur's early texts, Fallible Man offers an introduction to phenomenological method.