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Politics, Economy, and Society - Writings and Lectures, volume 4 (Paperback, Volume 4)
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Politics, Economy, and Society - Writings and Lectures, volume 4 (Paperback, Volume 4)
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The philosophy of Paul Ricoeur is rarely viewed through the lens of
political philosophy, and yet questions of power, and of how to
live together in the polis, were a constant preoccupation of his
writings. This volume brings together a selection of his texts
spanning six decades, from 1958 to 2003, which together present
Ricoeur's political project in its coherence and diversity. In
Ricoeur's view, the political is the realm of a tension between
"rationality" (the attempt to provide a coherent explanation of the
world) and "irrationality," which manifests itself in force and
repression. This "political paradox" lies at the heart of politics,
for the claim to explain the world generates its own form of
violence: the more one desires the good, the more one is inclined
to impose it. Ricoeur warns citizens, the guardians of democracy,
against any totalizing system of thought and any dogmatic
understanding of history. Power should be divided and controlled,
and Ricoeur defends a form of political liberalism in which states
are conscious of the limits of their power and respectful of the
freedom of their citizens. Ranging from questions of power and
repression to those of ethics, identity, and responsibility, these
little-known political texts by one of the leading philosophers of
the twentieth century will be of interest to students and scholars
of philosophy, politics, and theology and to anyone concerned with
the great political questions of our time.
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