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Ricoeur on Time and Narrative - An Introduction to Temps et recit (Hardcover)
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Ricoeur on Time and Narrative - An Introduction to Temps et recit (Hardcover)
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"The object of this book," writes William C. Dowling in his
preface, "is to make the key concepts of Paul Ricoeur's Time and
Narrative available to readers who might have felt bewildered by
the twists and turns of its argument." The sources of puzzlement
are, he notes, many. For some, it is Ricoeur's famously indirect
style of presentation, in which the polarities of argument and
exegesis seem so often and so suddenly to have reversed themselves.
For others, it is the extraordinary intellectual range of Ricoeur's
argument, drawing on traditions as distant from each other as
Heideggerian existentialism, French structuralism, and
Anglo-American analytic philosophy. Yet beneath the labyrinthian
surface of Ricoeur's Temps et recit, Dowling reveals a single
extended argument that, though developed unsystematically, is meant
to be understood in systematic terms. Ricoeur on Time and Narrative
presents that argument in clear and concise terms, in a way that
will be enlightening both to readers new to Ricoeur and those who
may have felt themselves adrift in the complexities of Temps et
recit, Ricoeur's last major philosophical work. Dowling divides his
discussion into six chapters, all closely involved with specific
arguments in Temps et recit: on mimesis, time, narrativity,
semantics of action, poetics of history, and poetics of fiction.
Additionally, Dowling provides a preface that lays out the French
intellectual context of Ricoeur's philosophical method. An appendix
presents his English translation of a personal interview in which
Ricoeur, having completed Time and Narrative, looks back over his
long career as an internationally renowned philosopher. Ricoeur on
Time and Narrative communicates to readers the intellectual
excitement of following Ricoeur's dismantling of established
theories and arguments-Aristotle and Augustine and Husserl on time,
Frye and Greimas on narrative structure, Arthur Danto and Louis O.
Mink on the nature of historical explanation-while coming to see
how, under the pressure of Ricoeur's analysis, these ideas are
reconstituted and revealed in a new set of relations to one
another.
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