Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century

The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur's Dialectical Concept

Stephanie N. Arel, Dan R. Stiver (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498577298 (ISBN)

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Paul’s Ricoeur’s Lectures on Ideology and Utopia are more pertinent than ever forty years later. The chapters in this book reflect the lectures’ original intricacy as the authors not only insightfully analyze them but also creatively apply them.

This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)—and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be enormously important in social and political analysis and connected them in a uniquely intricate dance. The ensuing interplay of these concepts provides a framework for a more deft and subtle evaluation than is common. Little has been done to engage Ricoeur’s skill in interpreting ideology and utopia or their creative tension, perhaps due to his significant contributions in other areas. When one combines Ricoeur’s intricate analyses of ideology and utopia, however, with his contributions in other areas of philosophy such as hermeneutics, anthropology, embodiment, and philosophy of religion, one has fertile grounds for reflection in many directions. The essays in this book draw on these resources not only to engage the strengths and weaknesses of Ricoeur’s original work, but they also expand his understanding in creative new directions such as the social imaginary, embodiment, gender theory, immigration, and extremist political rhetoric. The text will bring to the fore how this aspect of Ricoeur’s work has significance for the wider twenty-first century political landscape. Just as his original work, this book provides much-needed resources for critique of each term, along with their relationship to one another, while recognizing the positive dimension of their function.

Stephanie N. Arel is Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the September 11 Memorial and Museum and a visiting researcher at New York University. Dan R. Stiver is the Cook-Derrick Professor of Theology in the Logsdon School of Theology of Hardin-Simmons University.

Introduction

Part I: Re-Encountering Ricoeur

1. John Arthos – Ricoeur and the Political

2. Roger W. H. Savage – Surplus Value, Superabundance of Meaning: Ideology, the Political Paradox, and the Structure of Action

3. Dan R. Stiver – Renewing the “Period of Effervescence”: Utopia as Ideology Critique

Part II: Ricoeur in Dialogue

4. Recep Alpyagil – Metaphor and Imagination: A Comparative Study of Ricoeur and Ibn ‘Arabi through “Seeing As”

5. Linda Lee Cox – ‘Holding Open a Place for Possibility’: Paul Ricoeur, Fredric Jameson, and the Language of Utopia

Part III: Ricoeur and Embodied Social Critique

6. Nel van den Haak – Social Imagination, Materiality, and Political Discourse Introduction

7. Stephanie Arel – Embodied Extremist Rhetoric: The Circulation of Power in Ideology and Utopia

Part IV: Expanding Ricoeur

8. Annalisa Caputo – Rethinking Migratory Phenomena: Between Critique of Ideology and Utopia of Hospitality

9. Greg S. Johnson – Real Utopian Politics

10. George H. Taylor – Why Ideology and Utopia Today?

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
Co-Autor	Recep Alpyagil, Stephanie N. Arel, John Arthos
Zusatzinfo	1 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 229 mm
Gewicht	531 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9781498577298 / 9781498577298
Zustand	Neuware