Hall Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative

The Creative Tension between Love and Justice
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7982-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought

Looks at Ricoeur’s writings on love and justice, prominent toward the end of his life, and how these serve as an interpretive key to his thought as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, W. David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Situated Reading
Interpretational Structure

2. Agency: The Structures of Selfhood

The Structure of Agency
Capability: The Voluntary and the Involuntary
Identity: Idem and Ipse
Attestation: Acting and Suffering Selves

3. Meaning: The Narrative Configuration of Existence

The Configuration of Meaning
Understanding: Active Receptivity
Possibility: Actuality and Potentiality
Affirmation: A Hermeneutics of Meaningful Existence

4. Practice: Practical Experience and Moral Concern

Practical Experience
Responsibility: Imputation and Solicitude
Ethics: Power and Violence
Witness: Conviction and Fidelity

5. Conscience: Conviction and Fidelity in Theological Perspective

The Testimony of Conscience
Basic Structures: The Logic of Equivalence and the Logic of Superabundance
Configuration: The Golden Rule and the Love Command
Experience: Autonomy and Theonomy

6. The Economy of the Gift and the Poetic Imperative

The Economy of the Gift
Love and Justice
The Poetic Imperative

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

W. David Hall is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Centre College and coeditor (with John Wall and William Schweiker) of Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought.