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With his writings on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Marxism, ideology, and religion, Paul Ricoeur has single-handedly redefined and revitalized the hermeneutic tradition.
From Text to Action is an essential companion to the now classic
The Conflict of Interpretations. Here, Ricoeur continues and extends his project of constructing a general theory of interpretation, positioning his work in relation to its own philosophical background: Hegel, Husserl, Gadamer, and Weber. He also responds to contemporary figures like K.O. Apel and Jürgen Habermas, connecting his own theorization of ideology to their version of ideology critique.
About the Author
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Paul Ricœur (27 February 1913 - 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. As such his thought is situated within the same tradition as other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Translator's Note
Preface
On Interpretation
Part 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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