The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in Hermeneutics (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) [Paperback]

Paul Ricoeur (Author), Don Ihde (Editor), Bernard P. Dauenhauer (Foreword)

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Publication Date: October 16, 2007 | Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

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. Edited by Don Ihde>

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

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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• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press (October 16, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810123975
• ISBN-13: 978-0810123977
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars A light in the darkness, September 29, 2000

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This review is from: The Conflict of Interpretations (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existenti) (Paperback)

Paul Ricoeur's conflict of interpretation represents the (I think successful) attempt to provide a way to get out of the deconstruction of the self operated by Freud and the Psychanalysis.

It also gives a great theory about the simbolic use of the language.

The text might results sometimes difficult to an unprepared reader.