The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations

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A&C Black, Jan 1, 2005 - Philosophy - 544 pages

Paul Ricoeur (1913-) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at the University of Paris X, Nanterre. One of the foremost contemporary French philosophers, his work is influenced by Husserl, Marcel and Jaspers and is particularly concerned with symbolism, the creation of meaning and the interpretation of texts.

The Conflict of Interpretations ranges across an astonishing diversity of fields: structuralism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, religion and faith. The essays it comprises are bound together by Ricoeur's customary concern for interpretation and language and all bear the stamp of the systematic and critical thinking which has become his hallmark in contemporary philosophy.

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Contents

Existence and Hermeneutics translated
3
Structure and Hermeneutics translated
27
The Problem of Double Meaning
61
Structure Word Event translated by Robert
77
Consciousness and the Unconscious translated
97
Psychoanalysis and the Movement
119
A Philosophical Interpretation of Freud
157
Art and Freudian Systematics translated
192
The Hermeneutics of Symbols
284
II translated
312
The Demythization of Accusation translated
332
Interpretation of the Myth of Punishment
351
Preface to Bultmann translated by Peter
377
Freedom in the Light of Hope translated
398
Guilt Ethics and Religion
421
Religion Atheism and Faith translated
436

Nabert on Act and Sign translated by Peter
207
Heidegger and the Question of the Subject
219
The Challenge
232
A Study in Meaning translated
265
From Phantasm to Symbol
464
Bibliography
494
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Paul Ricoeur was a leading French thinker best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. His first major work was Philosophy of Will published in the UK in 1980. Other translated works include The Symbolization of Evil and The Conflict of Interpretations. Born in 1913 he was a professor at Nanterre and Strasbourg. In 2004, he was awarded the second John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences (shared with Jaroslav Pelikan). Ricoeur died in 2005.

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