Michele Kueter Petersen

A Hermeneutics of Contemplative Silence

Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning

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Produktbeschreibung

This book probes the texts of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein to disclose the role of silence in the creation of meaning. To understand and live out of contemplative awareness as a way to think through transformative human experience is an ethical and spiritual task, one that warrants explanation and interpretation.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781793640000
• ISBN-10: 1793640009
• Artikelnr.: 61434284

Autorenporträt

Michele Kueter Petersen has taught philosophy at Clarke University, religion at Cornell College, and philosophy and religious studies at Mount Mercy University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Prelude: A Poetic Presence
Chapter 1: Fallible Human
Chapter 2: Fallibility Gives Rise to Hermeneutics
Chapter 3: Capable Human and the Role of Silence in the Creation of Meaning
Chapter 4: The Practice of Contemplative Silence as a Historical Phenomenon
Chapter 5: Edith Stein and the Carmelite Tradition: Blazing a Prophetic
Path in the Light of Love
Chapter 6: The Practice of Contemplative Silence as a Transformative
Spiritual and Ethical Activity
Chapter 7: The Meaning of Capable Human
Chapter 8: A Song of Hermeneutical Existence
Postlude: Towards a Third Naiveté
Bibliography
Index
About the Author