Synopses & Reviews
This collection brings together twenty-two essays by Paul Ricoeur under the topics of structuralism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and religion. In dramatic conciseness, the essays illuminate the work of one of the leading philosophers of the day. Those interested in Ricoeur's development of the philosophy of language will find rich and suggestive reading. But the diversity of essays also speaks beyond the confines of philosophy to linguists, theologians, psychologists, and psychoanalysts.
About the Author
Paul Ricoeur (1913-) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at the University of Paris X, Nanterre. One of the foremost contemporary French philosophers, his work is particularly concerned with symbolism, the creation of meaning and the interpretation of texts.
Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He is the author of numerous books, including Postphenomenology: Essays in the Postmodern Context, published by Northwestern University Press.
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction
Existence and Hermeneutics
translated by Kathleen McLaughlin
I. Hermeneutics and Structuralism
Structure and Hermeneutics
translated by Kathleen McLaughlin
The Problem of Double Meaning as Hermeneutic Problem and as Semantic Problem
translated by Kathleen McLaughlin
Structure, Word, Event
translated by Robert Sweeney
II. Hermeneutics and Psychoanalysis
Consciousness and the Unconscious
translated by Willis Domingo
Psychoanalysis and the Movement of Contemporary Culture
translated by Willis Domingo
A Philosophical Interpretation of Freud
translated by Willis Domingo
Technique and Nontechnique in Interpretation
translated by Willis Domingo
Art and Freudian Systematics
translated by Willis Domingo
III. Hermeneutics and Phenomenology
Nabert on Act and Sign
translated by Peter McCormick
Heidegger and the Question of the Subject
The Question of the