A Companion to Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil

Herausgeber: Davidson, Scott

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Produktbeschreibung

Paul Ricoeur's most widely read book, The Symbolism of Evil, examines the structure of a will that has succumbed to evil and discloses its meaning through a study of symbols and myths. This edited collection explores a wide range of themes that resonate with topics in contemporary philosophy and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9781498587143
• ISBN-10: 1498587143
• Artikelnr.: 58503480

Autorenporträt

Scott Davidson is professor of philosophy at West Virginia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to The Symbolism of Evil
Scott Davidson
Part I: Reflections on Evil and Its Primary Symbols
Chapter 1: The Question of Evil
Jérôme Porée
Chapter 2: The Ambiguity of Flesh
Adam J. Graves
Chapter 3: Ricoeur's Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Sin
Marc-Antoine Vallée
Chapter 4: On the Servile Will
Daniel Frey
Part II: The Secondary Symbolics of Evil: Religious Ritual, Metaphor, and
Myth
Chapter 5: Why Religious Symbols? Accounting for an Unfashionable Approach
Petruschka Schaafsma
Chapter 6: Wagering for a Second Naïveté? Tensions in Ricoeur's Account of
the
Symbolism of Evil
Christina M. Gschwandtner
Chapter 7: Between Barth and Eliade: Ricoeur's Mediation of the Word and
the Sacred
Brian Gregor
Chapter 8: Metaphor as Dynamic Myth in Ricoeur
Colby Dickinson
Chapter 9: Salvation as Knowledge: Ricoeur's Reading of Plato
Scott Davidson
Part III: What Does the Symbol Give?
Chapter 10: The Symbol Gives Rise to Race
Nathan D. Pederson
Chapter 11: The Symbol Gives Rise to Theology: A Poetics of Theology
Dan R. Stiver
Chapter 12: The Symbol Gives Rise to Faith (Perhaps): Theopoetics and the
Gift of a Second Naiveté
B. Keith Putt
About the Contributors