Ricœur and the hermeneutics of suspicion /

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Author / Creator:Scott-Baumann, Alison.
Imprint:London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.
Description:x, 237 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Continuum studies in continental philosophy
Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7791258
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ISBN:9781847061881 (hbk.)
1847061885 (hbk.)
9781441170392 (pbk.)
1441170391 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index.
Summary:"Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the 20th Century. In Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion, Alison Scott-Baumann takes a thematic approach that explores Ricoeur's lifelong struggle to be both iconoclastic and yet hopeful, and avoid the slippery slope to relativism. Through an examination of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion', the book reveals strong continuities throughout his work, as well as significant discontinuities, such as the marked way in which he later distanced himself from the 'hermeneutics of suspicion' and his development of new devices in its place, while seeking a hermeneutics of recovery. Scott-Baumann offers an analysis of the hermeneutics of suspicion that will be useful to the fields of philosophy, literature, theology and postmodern social theory."--BOOK JACKET.