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Ricoeur's Personalist Republicanism - Personhood and Citizenship (Hardcover)
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Ricoeur's Personalist Republicanism - Personhood and Citizenship (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
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Moral and political convictions never stand alone. They are always
connected to an underlying view of mankind. Liberalism, which
currently predominates, is connected to a focus on the free
individual. Marxism thinks of man in terms of class struggle,
determined by economic relationships. Halfway the twentieth century
a powerful alternative came about, by the name of "personalism".
This term stood for a social and political thought based on the
concept of the human person. This concept stresses that a human
being only becomes human in relationship with others and in a
commitment to values that go beyond one's individual interests.
Although personalism has an important influence in western society,
in philosophical circles it is often regarded as dead and gone.
This tension brings Paul Ricoeur to the fore as an interesting
interlocutor, because he was considered a representative of
personalism in his younger years, while he later on also supported
fatal criticisms of original personalism. This book investigates to
what extent the thought of Ricoeur bears a continuing stamp of
personalism that allows him to instigate a personalist perspective
within contemporary political philosophy. The final result lies on
three fronts. First, there is more clarity in the status of
personalism in contemporary philosophy, as Ricoeur's hermeneutical
phenomenology shows that there are still viable means to elaborate
the core ideas of personalism. Second, a personalist kind of
republicanism is shown to provide a valuable input in the
contemporary philosophical debate on citizenship. Finally, the most
tangible result is a deeper understanding of the oeuvre of Ricoeur,
in the sense that this book shows that personalism is an important
and above all underestimated perspective to understand his entire
work.
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