{"title":"Paul Ricoeur","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Ricoeur’s works explore the depths of human experience through a rich interplay of \u003cem\u003ephilosophy, hermeneutics, and narrative theory\u003c\/em\u003e. His writings invite readers to engage with themes of time, identity, and imagination, offering profound insights into how we interpret ourselves and the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBridging disciplines such as \u003cstrong\u003eethics, politics, religion, and history\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ricoeur’s texts challenge and expand conventional boundaries, making his thought essential for those interested in understanding the complexities of human thought and societal structures.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"religion-for-thought-by-paul-ricoeur-9781509565559","title":"Religion For Thought","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the last decade of the twentieth century, there has been talk of a return of religion in Western societies—the very societies that were regarded by many people as undergoing an irreversible process of secularisation. Paul Ricoeur's philosophical writings on religion are contemporaneous with this movement of secularisation and return, while at the same time his work complicates the schema. In Ricoeur's view, religion is part of the universe of convictions in which subjects live concretely, convictions that deserve to be heard and placed under the lights of argumentation and discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Ricoeur, religion is the other of philosophy, the non-philosophical par excellence. He did not write a systematic philosophy of religion, but he wrote extensively about religion as a meeting place for language and conviction. The essays in this volume, written between 1953 and 2003, attest to the coherence, richness, and variety of Ricoeur's secular and philosophical approach towards religion. They range over the problem of guilt, the legitimacy or otherwise of Freudian, Marxist, and other critiques of religion, the relation between experience and language in religious discourse, the study of biblical hermeneutics, the nature of religious belief, and reflections on sacrifice, gifts, and debt. Ricoeur draws on religion to think, while not neglecting the analysis of religion itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese texts by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century will be of interest to students and scholars of philosophy and theology and to anyone concerned with the enduring role of religion in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871462379756,"sku":"9781509565559","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9a83eed56410c5a43483c7fb6f7d1292.jpg?v=1759983917"},{"product_id":"politics-economy-and-society-by-paul-ricoeur-9781509543878","title":"Politics, Economy, and Society","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe philosophy of Paul Ricoeur is rarely viewed through the lens of political philosophy, and yet questions of power, and of how to live together in the \u003ci\u003epolis\u003c\/i\u003e, were a constant preoccupation of his writings. This volume brings together a selection of his texts spanning six decades, from 1958 to 2003, which together present Ricoeur’s political project in its coherence and diversity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Ricoeur’s view, the political is the realm of a tension between “rationality” (the attempt to provide a coherent explanation of the world) and “irrationality,” which manifests itself in force and repression. This “political paradox” lies at the heart of politics, for the claim to explain the world generates its own form of violence: the more one desires the good, the more one is inclined to impose it. Ricoeur warns citizens, the guardians of democracy, against any totalizing system of thought and any dogmatic understanding of history. Power should be divided and controlled, and Ricoeur defends a form of political liberalism in which states are conscious of the limits of their power and respectful of the freedom of their citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanging from questions of power and repression to those of ethics, identity, and responsibility, these little-known political texts by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century will be of interest to students and scholars of philosophy, politics, and theology and to anyone concerned with the great political questions of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000707891436,"sku":"9781509543878","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12461033482725.jpg?v=1763299325"},{"product_id":"time-and-narrative-volume-1-by-paul-ricoeur-9780226713328","title":"Time and Narrative, Volume 1","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime and Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in \u003ci\u003eThe Rule of Metaphor\u003c\/i\u003e, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRicoeur finds a \"healthy circle\" between time and narrative: time is humanised to the extent that it portrays temporal experience. Ricoeur proposes a theoretical model of this circle using Augustine's theory of time and Aristotle's theory of plot and, further, develops an original thesis of the mimetic function of narrative. He concludes with a comprehensive survey and critique of modern discussions of historical knowledge, understanding, and writing from Aron and Mandelbaum in the late 1930s to the work of the Annales school and that of Anglophone philosophers of history of the 1960s and 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis work, in my view, puts the whole problem of narrative, not to mention philosophy of history, on a new and higher plane of discussion.\u003c\/em\u003e—Hayden White, \u003ci\u003eHistory and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuperb... A fine point of entrance into the work of one of the eminent thinkers of the present intellectual age.\u003c\/em\u003e—Joseph R. 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Philosophical issues are brought to bear on present-day concerns and the practical realities of contemporary politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow can the philosopher speak about politics without claiming superior insight or a higher order of knowledge? Ricoeur distinguishes three levels of society: ‘tools’ (modes of production and the accumulation of technology), ‘institutions’ (which are tied to national cultures) and ‘values’ (which claim to be universal). The philosopher’s task is to probe each of these levels and open up spaces for reflection, criticism and democratic deliberation. It is to explore the paradoxes of the political rather than invoking certainties dictated by conscience. Just as there no longer exists a grand narrative about the past, so too there is no longer any utopia capable of projecting the desired future. What remains is human creativity, which marks the source common to the institutional frameworks that are already present and the horizons that extend beyond them. The philosopher’s engagement lies in the promise to revive this source at the very moment it appears to dry up under the weight of the real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume of interviews and dialogues with one of the most important French philosophers of the post-war period will be of interest to anyone interested in the great political and ethical questions of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhilosophy, Ethics, and Politics\u003c\/em\u003e offers profound insights into these philosophical inquiries, encouraging readers to critically examine the ever-evolving intersections of politics and ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597504233708,"sku":"9781509534517","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6d4eb134010f8388bf9d64e2e0ea90e7.jpg?v=1777958450"},{"product_id":"hermeneutics-by-paul-ricoeur-9780745661223","title":"Hermeneutics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Ricoeur’s contribution to the theory of interpretation, or hermeneutics, is considerable: he ranks among the masters of this discipline alongside Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer. In addition to major works like \u003ci\u003eThe Conflict of Interpretations\u003c\/i\u003e, he wrote many articles and shorter texts which deserve to be discovered and rediscovered. These allow us to gain a deeper understanding of the development of his work over time and to appreciate the full range of his contribution. Some of the texts examine the nature of metaphor while others guide the reader through the many challenges of the hermeneutic problem – from the symbol to the text, then to the text as action, taking full account of the ethical implications. Here one encounters Ricoeur’s reflections on the future of hermeneutics and his abiding concern to explore the relations between hermeneutics and analytical philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRicoeur’s contribution to biblical hermeneutics has also been decisive. Two masterful studies in this volume attest to Ricoeur’s attempt to explore the relations between revelation and truth, on the one hand, and between myths of salvation and reason, on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book – the second volume of Ricoeur’s writings and lectures – brings together texts which appeared between 1972 and 2006. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis theory provocatively suggests that we are not constrained by existing political, social, and scientific structures. 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