Paul Ricoeur / / Karl Simms

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821071103321
• Autore: Simms Karl
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; New York, : Routledge, 2003
• ISBN: 87-7288-532-7; 1-134-56213-6; 1-134-56214-4; 0-203-16550-0; 1-280-07023-4; 0-415-23637-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Collana: Routledge critical thinkers
• Disciplina: 194
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Paul Ricoeur; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Why Ricoeur?; Key Ideas; 1. Good and Evil; 2. Hermeneutics; 3. Psychoanalysis; 4. Metaphor; 5. Narrative; 6. Ethics; 7. Politics and Justice; After Ricoeur; Further Reading; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Paul Ricoeur is one of the most wide-ranging thinkers to emerge in the twentieth century. He has developed a unique 'theory of reading' or hermeneutics, which extends far beyond the reading of literary works to build into a theory for the reading of 'life'. For this reason, his work has impacted not only upon literary studies, but upon such disciplines as philosophy, psychoanalysis, history, religion, legal studies and politics.This introductory guide:* details Ricoeur's most significant contributions to contemporary critical thought* provides an intellectual context to hi