Ricoeur's Critical Theory

Ricoeur's Critical TheoryThe first book length treatment of Paul Ricoeur's conception of philosophy as critical theory. In Ricoeur's Critical Theory, David M. Kaplan revisits the Habermas Gadamer debates to show how Paul Ricoeur's narrative hermeneutics and moral political philosophy provide a superior interpretive, normative, and critical framework. Arguing that Ricoeur's unique version of critical theory surpasses the hermeneutic philosophy of Gadamer, Kaplan adds a theory

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this work also advocates for renewed attention to the spiritual

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The coverage is systematic

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon of the absurd in a full literary context (that is to say

Drawing upon three case studies – a peasant farmers’ network

Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years

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This chapter reviews the current theories about the pathways leading towards domestication and presents the concept of domestication center

Social democracy and urban politicsdelves into the changing relationship between social democratic

The broad interests of this volume reflect those of the man to whom they were written as offerings for

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