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Paul Ricoeur's entire philosophical project narrates a "passion for
the possible" expressed in the hope that in spite of death,
closure, and sedimentation, life is opened by superabundance, by
how the world gives us much more than is possible. Ricoeur's
philosophical anthropology is a phenomenology of human capacity,
which gives onto the groundless ground of human being, namely, God.
Thus the story of the capable man, beginning with original goodness
held captive by a servile will and ending with the possibility of
liberation and regeneration of the heart, underpins his passion for
the more than possible. The essays in this volume trace the fluid
movement between phenomenological and religious descriptions of the
capable self that emerges across Ricoeur's oeuvre and establish
points of connection for future developments that might draw
inspiration from this body of thought.
Paul Ricoeur's entire philosophical project narrates a "passion for
the possible" expressed in the hope that in spite of death,
closure, and sedimentation, life is opened by superabundance, by
how the world gives us much more than is possible. Ricoeur's
philosophical anthropology is a phenomenology of human capacity,
which gives onto the groundless ground of human being, namely, God.
Thus the story of the capable man, beginning with original goodness
held captive by a servile will and ending with the possibility of
liberation and regeneration of the heart, underpins his passion for
the more than possible. The essays in this volume trace the fluid
movement between phenomenological and religious descriptions of the
capable self that emerges across Ricoeur's oeuvre and establish
points of connection for future developments that might draw
inspiration from this body of thought.
Identifying Selfhood provides the first sustained treatment of the
development of Paul Ricoeur's decentered formulation of selfhood
from his earliest works to his most recent. For Henry Venema,
Ricoeur's affirmation that consciousness is always rooted in the
signs, symbols, and texts that precede the hermeneutical project of
self-recovery and discovery provides the thread that links all of
Ricoeur's philosophical inquiries together. However, as Venema
argues, Ricoeur's hermeneutic is caught up in the semantics of
identity to such an extent that selfhood is confused and often
equated with the textuality of the reflective process and is never
dealt with on the intimate level of the reflexive structure of
selfhood in relation to otherness. In the end, Ricoeur's
formulation of alterity identifies the other within the circle of
the self-same.
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