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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820451603321

Autore

Duffy Maria

Titolo

Paul Ricoeur's pedagogy of pardon : a narrative theory of memory and forgetting / / Maria Duffy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2009

ISBN

1-282-87686-4

9786612876868

1-4411-9336-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Memory (Philosophy)

Forgiveness

Reconciliation

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Narration (Rhetoric)

Hermeneutics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-173) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; 1. SITUATING NARRATIVE: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT; 2. ETHICAL BEING: THE STORIED SELF AS MORAL AGENT; 3. RECONCILED BEING: NARRATIVE AND PARDON; 4. PEDAGOGIES OF PARDON IN PRAXIS; 5. TOWARDS A NARRATIVE PEDAGOGY OF RECONCILIATION; 6. RICOEUR'S LEGACY: A PRAXIS OF PEAGE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF TERMS

Sommario/riassunto

Where conflict arises from the clash of cultures, memory also becomes a tool to help resolve and heal past wounds.   Ricoeur provides a hermeneutical key to examine conflicting narratives so that some shared truths can be arrived at in order to begin afresh.   As the many Truth Commissions around the world illustrate; revisiting the past has a positive benefit in steering history in a new direction after protracted violence. A second deeper strand in the book is the connection between Paul Ricoeur and John Paul II.   Both lived through the worst period of modern European history (Ricoeur a Pri