Lexington Books
Pages: 232
Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-7391-9173-6 • Hardback • December 2015 • $121.00 • (£93.00)
978-0-7391-9174-3 • eBook • December 2015 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
Roger W. H. Savage is professor of systematic musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Introduction: Paul Ricoeur and the Age of Hermeneutical Reason
Chapter 1. Marcel Hénaff, Labor, Social Justice, and Recognition: Around Paul Ricoeur
Chapter 2. Marc De Leeuw, The Anthropological Presupposition: Paul Ricoeur’s Search for the Just
Chapter 3. Annalisa Caputo, Paul Ricoeur, Martha Nussbaum and the “Incapability Approach”
Chapter 4. David Pellauer, Narrated Action Grounds Narrative Identity
Chapter 5. Anna Borisenkova, “Reading the City: from the Inhabitant to the Flâneur”
Chapter 6. Todd Mei, Convictions and Justification
Chapter 7. George Taylor, Prospective Political Identity
Chapter 8. Roger W. H. Savage, The Wager of Imagination and the Logic of Hope
Chapter 9. Marianne Moyaert, From Religious Violence to Interreligious Hospitality
Chapter 10. Richard Kearney, Ricoeur’s Wager of Flesh: Between Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
Chapter 11. Timo Helenius, The Will, the Body, and Sexuality: Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology of “Being Willing and Able”
Roger W. H. Savage has put together an important set of essays, which demonstrates various ways in which Ricoeur’s thought and work can offer solutions to a range of problems in contemporary practical philosophy. Each essay expertly considers new and pressing questions in this developing area of Ricoeur scholarship. But the collection is not simply a valuable contribution to how we might understand Ricoeur: it shows its readers intriguing new ways of thinking with and after the philosopher. It is a fine example of the continuing significance of hermeneutic reason as an interpretative approach.
— Eileen Brennan, Études Ricœuriennes/Ricœur Studies
This fine book testifies to the ongoing relevance of the work of Paul Ricoeur. Engaging with wide-ranging contemporary issues, such as those of power, violence, capacities, fragility, justice, responsibility, and recognition, the various authors of this volume draw on Ricoeur’s intellect, wisdom, and compassion, to sustain this age of hermeneutic reason.
— Morny Joy, University of Calgary