Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century (eBook)

The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur's Dialectical Concept

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

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2018
264 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498577304 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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 Action3.Dan R. Stiver – Renewing the “Period of Effervescence”: Utopia as Ideology CritiquePart II: Ricoeur in Dialogue4.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 UtopiaPart III: Ricoeur and Embodied Social Critique6.Nel van den Haak – Social Imagination, Materiality, and Political Discourse Introduction7.Stephanie Arel – Embodied Extremist Rhetoric: The Circulation of Power in Ideology and UtopiaPart IV: Expanding Ricoeur 8.Annalisa Caputo – Rethinking Migratory Phenomena: Between Critique of Ideology and Utopia of Hospitality9.Greg S. Johnson – Real Utopian Politics10.George H. Taylor – Why Ideology and Utopia Today?About the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
• Co-Autor: Recep Alpyagil, George H. Taylor, Stephanie N. Arel, John Arthos, Annalisa Caputo, Linda L. Cox, Nel van den Haak, Greg Johnson, Roger W. H. Savage, Dan R. Stiver
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Alain Badiou • Continental Philosophy • critical dialectic • Critical theory • David Estlund • Dialectic • Fourier • Frederic Jameson • George Taylor • Habermas • hermeneutics • Ibn Arabi • Mannheim's paradox • narrative • Paul Ricoeur • political paradox • Political Philosophy • political rhetoric • Political Science • political theory • Raymond Guess • Ricoeurian hermeneutics • Saint-Simon • Social Critique • social imaginary • Utopia • William Galston
• ISBN-13: 9781498577304 / 9781498577304