Roger W. H. Savage

Paul Ricoeur's Philosophical Anthropology as Hermeneutics of Liberation (eBook, ePUB)

Freedom, Justice, and the Power of Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a unique account of the role imagination plays in advancing the course of freedom's actualization. It draws on Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology of the capable human being as the staging ground for an extended inquiry into the difficulties of making freedom a reality within the history of humankind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000223064
• Artikelnr.: 60092170

Autorenporträt

Roger W. H. Savage is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in hermeneutics, aesthetics, and politics. He is the author of Hermeneutics and Music Criticism and Music, Time, and Its Other: Aesthetic Reflections on Finitude, Temporality, and Alterity. He has also edited two books on the work of Paul Ricoeur: Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis, and Critique and Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Aesthetic Experience and the Wager
of Imagination 2
The Poetics of the Will and a Philosophical
Anthropology of the Capable Human Being 6
Summary Outline 9
1 Philosophical Anthropology, Poetics,
and the Philosophy of the Will 15Poetics and the Philosophy of the Will 16
Intermediacy, Fallibility, Fault 18
Finitude and Infinitude 23
Transcendental Reflection 25
Metaphor and Metaphysics 29
2 The Practical Synthesis: Character, Happiness,
and Respect 42Practical Synthesis 43
Practical Finitude 45
Happiness 53
Respect 57
3 Affective Fragility, Vulnerability, and the Capable
Human Being 66The Restless Heart 67
Reason and Happiness 70
Fragility and Fallibility: Having, Power, Worth 74
viii Contents
4 The Wager of Imagination 89Ideology, Violence, and Power 90
An Eschatology of Nonviolence 94
Negative Dialectics and the Principle of Hope 97
The Temporalization of History 101
The Force of the Present and the Horizon of
the Process of Freedom's Actualization 103
5 Singularity, Exemplarity, Universality 114
Aesthetic Experience 114
Mimesis and Truth 117
Singularity, Exemplarity, Communicability 121
Reason, Judgment, and Imagination 126
6 Toward a Hermeneutics of Liberation 136The Idea of Humanity and the
Aporia of the
Oneness of Time 137
Exemplarity and the Hermeneutics
of Testimony 142
The Imperative of Justice 149
7 Conclusions 160Conviction and Belief 163
Is Freedom Possible? 168
Hospitality and Justice 173
Bibliography 185
Index 193