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Lectures on Imagination
Paul Ricoeur; Edited by George H Taylor, Robert D Sweeney, Jean-Luc Amalric, Patrick F. Crosby
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Ricoeur’s theory of productive imagination in previously
unpublished lectures. The eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur was
devoted to the imagination. These previously unpublished lectures
offer Ricoeur’s most significant and sustained reflections on
creativity as he builds a new theory of imagination through close
examination, moving from Aristotle, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant
to Ryle, Price, Wittgenstein, Husserl, and Sartre. These thinkers,
he contends, underestimate humanity’s creative capacity. While
the Western tradition generally views imagination as derived from
the reproductive example of the image, Ricoeur develops a theory
about the mind’s power to produce new realities. Modeled most
clearly in fiction, this productive imagination, Ricoeur argues, is
available across conceptual domains. His theory provocatively
suggests that we are not constrained by existing political, social,
and scientific structures. Rather, our imaginations have the power
to break through our conceptual horizons and remake the world.
Fallible Man is the second book in Paul Ricoeur’s early trilogy
on the will and the most accessible of his early writings. While
the descriptive approach of Freedom and Nature set aside all
normative questions, Fallible Man removes those brackets to examine
the bad will, asking what makes evil a possibility. Combining rigor
and originality, Ricoeur locates the possibility of evil in a self
that is fundamentally in conflict with itself. Edited by Scott
Davidson, A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man clarifies and
contextualizes the central arguments developed in Ricoeur’s
philosophy of the will, providing insight into his formative
influences and themes. The collection gathers an international
group of scholars who specialize in Ricoeur’s thought to shed
light on an impressive range of themes from Fallible Man that
resonate with contemporary debates in philosophy and religion.
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A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man
Scott Davidson; Contributions by Jean-Luc Amalric, Luz Ascárate Ascarate, Scott Davidson, Geoffrey Dierckxsens, …
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R1,266
Discovery Miles 12 660
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Fallible Man is the second book in Paul Ricoeur’s early trilogy
on the will and the most accessible of his early writings. While
the descriptive approach of Freedom and Nature set aside all
normative questions, Fallible Man removes those brackets to examine
the bad will, asking what makes evil a possibility. Combining rigor
and originality, Ricoeur locates the possibility of evil in a self
that is fundamentally in conflict with itself. Edited by Scott
Davidson, A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man clarifies and
contextualizes the central arguments developed in Ricoeur’s
philosophy of the will, providing insight into his formative
influences and themes. The collection gathers an international
group of scholars who specialize in Ricoeur’s thought to shed
light on an impressive range of themes from Fallible Man that
resonate with contemporary debates in philosophy and religion.
Paul Ricoeur's first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many
themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work,
but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of
Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of
scholars, The Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first
book-length study to focus exclusively on Freedom and Nature. It
helps readers to understand this complex work by providing careful
textual analysis of specific arguments in the book and by situating
them in relation to Ricoeur's early influences, including
Merleau-Ponty, Nabert, and Ravaisson. But most importantly, this
book demonstrates that Freedom and Nature remains a compelling and
vital resource for readers today, precisely because it resonates
with recent developments in the areas of embodied cognition,
philosophical psychology, and philosophy of the will. Freedom and
Nature is fundamentally a book about embodiment, and it situates
the human body at the crossroads of activity and passivity,
motivation and causation, the voluntary and the involuntary. This
conception of the body informs Ricoeur's unique treatment of topics
such as effort, habit, and attention that are of much interest to
scholars today. Together the chapters of this book provide a
renewed appreciation of this important and innovative work.
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