Paul Ricoeur by Karl Simms (English) Paperback Book

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Karl Simms also offers a guide to further reading, which offers advice on Ricoeur's work as well as secondary texts. Refreshingly clear and impressively comprehensive, Paul Ricoeur is the essential guide to an essential theorist.

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Refreshingly clear and impressively comprehensive, this is the essential guide to one of the most wide-ranging and influential thinkers alive today. In Paul Ricoeur Karl Simms: details Ricoeur's most significant contributions to contemporary critical thought provides an intellectual context to his key ideas explores the debate around his work on good and evil, psychoanalysis, metaphor, narrative, politics and justice suggests the continuing relevance of Ricoeur's thought and examines the increasing interest in his work across a range of disciplines. This handy volume also includes a guide to further reading, which offers advice on Ricoeur's publications and relevant secondary texts.

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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 his key ideas * explores the debate around his work on good and evil, psychoanalysis, metaphor, narrative, politics and justice * suggests the continuing relevance of Ricoeur's thought and examines the increasing interest in his work across a range of disciplines. Karl Simms also provides a guide to further reading, which offers advice on Ricoeur's publications and relevant secondary texts. Refreshingly clear and impressively comprehensive, Paul Ricoeur is the essential guide to an essential theorist .

Author Biography

Karl Simms is Director of the English-Philosophy joint programme at the University of Liverpool and a lecturer in English Language and Literature. He is the editor of Ethics and the Subject (1997), Language and the Subject (1997) and Translating Sensitive Texts (1997).

Table of Contents

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

Details ISBN0415236371 Short Title PAUL RICOEUR Language English ISBN-10 0415236371 ISBN-13 9780415236379 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 194 Year 2002 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations further reading Edition 1st Pages 176 DOI 10.1604/9780415236379 UK Release Date 2002-12-05 AU Release Date 2002-12-05 NZ Release Date 2002-12-05 Author Karl Simms Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Critical Thinkers Publication Date 2002-12-05 Alternative 9780415236362 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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