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A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur
Brian Treanor
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Description for A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur
Paperback. Editor(s): Treanor, Brian. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
Paul Ricoeur's entire philosophical project narrates a "passion for the possible" expressed 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.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823232932
SKU
V9780823232932
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About Brian Treanor
Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity (Fordham, 2006) and Emplotting Virtue (SUNY Press, 2014), and the coeditor of A Passion for the Possible (Fordham University Press, 2010), Interpreting Nature (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Being-in-Creation (Fordham University Press, 2015). Current projects include the ... Read more
Reviews for A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur
"This is the first collection of essays to self-consciously address itself retrospectively to Paul Ricoeur's philosophical oeuvre."
-W. David Hall Centre College "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 ... Read more
-W. David Hall Centre College "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 ... Read more