Ricœur and the hermeneutics of suspicion / Alison Scott-Baumann.
"Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the 20th Century. In Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion, Alison Scott-Baumann takes a thematic approach that explores Ricoeur's lifelong struggle to be both iconoclastic and yet hopeful, an...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Continuum,
[2009]
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| Series: | Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
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| Summary: | "Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the 20th Century. In Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion, Alison Scott-Baumann takes a thematic approach that explores Ricoeur's lifelong struggle to be both iconoclastic and yet hopeful, and avoid the slippery slope to relativism. Through an examination of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion', the book reveals strong continuities throughout his work, as well as significant discontinuities, such as the marked way in which he later distanced himself from the 'hermeneutics of suspicion' and his development of new devices in its place, while seeking a hermeneutics of recovery. Scott-Baumann offers an analysis of the hermeneutics of suspicion that will be useful to the fields of philosophy, literature, theology and postmodern social theory."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 237 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847061881 1847061885 9781441170392 1441170391 |