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Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris X, Nanterre, and a leading figure in twentieth-century French philosophy. This book offers a companion to Ricoeur's classic text, "The Conflict of Interpretations".

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Acknowledgements; Translator's Note; Preface; On Interpretation; Part I: For a Hermeneutical Phenomenology; 1. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics; 2. The Task of Hermeneutics; 3. The Hermeneutical Function of Distanciation; 4. Philosophical Hermeneutics and Biblical Hermeneutics; Part II: From the Hermeneutics of Texts to the Hermeneutics of Action; 5. What Is a Text?; 6. Explanation and Understanding; 7. The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text; 8. Imagination in Discourse and in Action; 9. Practical Reason; 10. Initiative; Part III: Ideology, Utopia and Politics; 11. Hegel and Husserl on Intersubjectivity; 12. Science and Ideology; 13. Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology; 14. Ideology and Utopia; 15. Ethics and Politics; Notes.

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/13/2008 12:11:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780826443953, 978-0826443953
      ISBN10: 0826443958
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris X, Nanterre, and a leading figure in twentieth-century French philosophy. This book offers a companion to Ricoeur's classic text, "The Conflict of Interpretations".

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements; Translator's Note; Preface; On Interpretation; Part I: For a Hermeneutical Phenomenology; 1. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics; 2. The Task of Hermeneutics; 3. The Hermeneutical Function of Distanciation; 4. Philosophical Hermeneutics and Biblical Hermeneutics; Part II: From the Hermeneutics of Texts to the Hermeneutics of Action; 5. What Is a Text?; 6. Explanation and Understanding; 7. The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text; 8. Imagination in Discourse and in Action; 9. Practical Reason; 10. Initiative; Part III: Ideology, Utopia and Politics; 11. Hegel and Husserl on Intersubjectivity; 12. Science and Ideology; 13. Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology; 14. Ideology and Utopia; 15. Ethics and Politics; Notes.

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