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Philosophical Anthropology (Hardcover)
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How do human beings become human? This question lies behind the
so-called human sciences. But these disciplines are scattered among
many different departments and hold up a cracked mirror to
humankind. This is why, in the view of Paul Ricoeur, we need to
develop a philosophical anthropology, one that has a much older
history but still offers many untapped resources. This appeal to a
specifically philosophical approach to questions regarding what it
was to be human did not stop Ricoeur from entering into dialogue
with other disciplines and approaches, such as psychoanalysis,
history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics and the philosophy of
language, in order to offer an up-to-date reflection on what he saw
as the fundamental issues. For there is clearly not a simple,
single answer to the question what is it to be human? Ricoeur
therefore takes up the complexity of this question in terms of the
tensions he sees between the voluntary and the involuntary, acting
and suffering, autonomy and vulnerability, capacity and fragility,
and identity and otherness. The texts brought together in this
volume provide an overall view of the development of Ricoeur's
philosophical thinking on the question of what it is to be human,
from his early 1939 lecture on Attention to his remarks on
receiving the Kluge Prize in 2004, a few months before his death.
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