Companion to Ricoeur's Freedom and Nature (eBook)

Scott Davidson (Herausgeber)

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2018
256 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7889-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Gathering an international team of scholars, The Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first book devoted exclusively to Paul Ricoeur’s Freedom and Nature. Covering important influences on Ricoeur’s early thought and connecting it to current issues in embodied cognition and the philosophy of will, the companion promotes a renewed appreciation of the contemporary relevance of this groundbreaking work.

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Paul Ricoeur's first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work, but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of scholars, A Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first book-length study to focus exclusively on Freedom and Nature. It helps readers to understand this complex work by providing careful textual analysis of specific arguments in the book and by situating them in relation to Ricoeur's early influences, including Merleau-Ponty, Nabert, and Ravaisson. But most importantly, this book demonstrates that Freedom and Nature remains a compelling and vital resource for readers today, precisely because it resonates with recent developments in the areas of embodied cognition, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of the will. Freedom and Nature is fundamentally a book about embodiment, and it situates the human body at the crossroads of activity and passivity, motivation and causation, the voluntary and the involuntary. This conception of the body informs Ricoeur's unique treatment of topics such as effort, habit, and attention that are of much interest to scholars today. Together the chapters of this book provide a renewed appreciation of this important and innovative work.

Autor

Scott Davidson is professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Rhetoric at Oklahoma City University.

Inhalt

Freedom and Nature, Then and NowScott Davidson Marc-Antoine Vallée Jean-Luc Amalric Jakub ČapekFreedom and Nature Michael Sohn Michael A. Johnson Johann MichelVolo, ergo sum: Ricoeur Reading Maine de Biran on Effort and Resistance, the Voluntary and the InvoluntaryEftichis PirovolakisGrégori JeanScott DavidsonNatalie DeprazFreedom and NatureGeoffrey DierckxsensFreedom and Resentment and Ricoeur: Towards a Normative-Narrative Theory of Agency Adam J. Graves

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
• Co-Autor: Jean-Luc Amalric, Eftichis Pirovolakis, Michael Sohn, Marc-Antoine Vallee, Jakub Capek, Scott Davidson, Natalie Depraz, Geoffrey Dierckxsens, Adam Graves, Gregori Jean, Michael Johnson Jr., Johann Michel
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: aporia • Aquinas • attention • Continental Philosophy • Determinism • embodied cognition • Embodiment • Free Will • French Philosophy • Habit • Husserl • Merleau-Ponty • moral psychology • Phenomenology • Philosophical psychology • Ravaisson • Ricoeur • Ricoeurian
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7889-6 / 1498578896
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7889-9 / 9781498578899