1st Edition

Paul Ricoeur

By Karl Simms Copyright 2003
176 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Paul Ricoeur is one of the most wide-ranging thinkers to emerge in the twentieth century. He has developed a unique 'theory of reading' or hermeneutics , which extends far beyond the reading of literary works to build into a theory for the reading of 'life'. For this reason, his work has impacted not only upon literary studies, but upon such disciplines as philosophy, psychoanalysis, history,... Read more
Why Ricoeur? Key Ideas: 1. Good and Evil 2. Hermeneutics 3. Psychoanalysis 4. Metaphor 5. Narrative 6. Ethics 7. Politics and Justice After Ricoeur Further Reading Works Cited Index

Biography

Karl Simms is Director of the English-Philosophy joint programme at the University of Liverpool and a lecturer in English Language and Literature. He is the editor of Ethics and the Subject (1997), Language and the Subject (1997) and Translating Sensitive Texts (1997).