A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur

by Brian Treanor (Editor), Henry Isaac Venema (Editor)

Overview

Paul Ricoeur's entire philosophical project narrates a passion for the possibleexpressed in the hope that in spite of death, closure, and sedimentation, life is opened by superabundance, by how the world gives us much more than is possible. Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology is a phenomenology of human capacity, which gives onto the groundless ground of human being, namely, God. Thus the story of the capable man, beginning with original goodness held captive by a servile will and ending with the possibility of liberation and regeneration of the heart, underpins his passion for the more than possible. The essays in this volume trace the fluid movement between phenomenological and religious descriptions of the capable self that emerges across Ricoeur's oeuvre and establish points of connection for future developments that might draw inspiration from this body of thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823232932
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	07/13/2010
Series:	Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Edition description:	3
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Brian Treanor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate (Fordham).

Henry Venema is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brandon University, in Canada. He is the author of Identifying Selfhood: Imagination, Narrative, and Hermeneutics in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: How Much More Than the Possible? Brian Treanor Henry Isaac Venema 1

Asserting Personal Capacities and Pleading for Mutual Recognition Paul Ricoeur 22

Religious Belief: The Difficult Path of the Religious Paul Ricoeur 27

Remembering Paul Ricoeur David Pellauer 41

Capable Man, Capable God Richard Kearney 49

The Source of Ricoeur's Double Allegiance Henry Isaac Venema 62

The Golden Rule and Forgiveness Gaëlle Fiasse 77

Toward Which Recognition? Jean Greisch 90

Paul Ricoeur and Development Ethics David M. Kaplan 112

Narrative Matters among the Mlabri: Interpretive Anthropology in International Development Ellen A. Herda 129

The Place of Remembrance: Reflections on Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Collective Memory Jeffrey Andrew Barash 147

Refiguring Virtue Boyd Blundell 158

Emplotting Virtue: Narrative and the Good Life Brian Treanor 173

Preserving the Eidetic Moment: Reflections on the Work of Paul Ricoeur David Rasmussen 190

Notes 197

List of Contributors 225

Index of Names 229

Editorial Reviews

Many scholars from a variety of disciplines will find this an interesting and enlightening text. It not only broadens our understanding of Ricoeur's work but also builds on it, following his exemplary model on how to do philosophy.-Christina Gschwandtner

This is the first collection of essays to self-consciously address itself retrospectively to Paul Ricoeur's philosophical oeuvre.-W. David Hall

From the Publisher

Many scholars from a variety of disciplines will find this an interesting and enlightening text. It not only broadens our understanding of Ricoeur's work but also builds on it, following his exemplary model on how to do philosophy.

University of Scranton - Christina Gschwandtner

This is the first collection of essays to self-consciously address itself retrospectively to Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical oeuvre.

Centre College - W. David Hall