Identifying selfhood : imagination, narrative, and hermeneutics in the thought of Paul Ricoeur
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Identifying selfhood : imagination, narrative, and hermeneutics in the thought of Paul Ricoeur
（McGill studies in the history of religions）
State University of New York Press, c2000
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Bibliography: p. 185-195
Includes index
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Description
Identifying Selfhood provides the first sustained treatment of the development of Paul Ricoeur's decentered formulation of selfhood from his earliest works to his most recent. For Henry Venema, Ricoeur's affirmation that consciousness is always rooted in the signs, symbols, and texts that precede the hermeneutical project of self-recovery and discovery provides the thread that links all of Ricoeur's philosophical inquiries together. However, as Venema argues, Ricoeur's hermeneutic is caught up in the semantics of identity to such an extent that selfhood is confused and often equated with the textuality of the reflective process and is never dealt with on the intimate level of the reflexive structure of selfhood in relation to otherness. In the end, Ricoeur's formulation of alterity identifies the other within the circle of the self-same.
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction 1. From Ego to Selfhood: A Question of Method
1.1 Distanciation and Phenomenology
1.2 Ricoeur's Critique of Phenomenological Idealism
1.3 A Hermeneutical Variation of Phenomenology
1.4 A Dialectic of Phenomenological Hermeneutics
2. Imagination: Mediated Self-Constitution
2.1 Creative Imaginativity
2.2 Freedom and Nature
2.3 Fault and Failure
2.4 Fallible Man
3. Metaphorical Reformulation: Toward Mutual Selfhood
3.1 From Semantic of Discourse to the Work of Resemblance
3.2 The Work of Resemblance
3.3 Reference and Reality
4. Narrative Imagination and Personal Identity
4.1 Narrative Identity
4.2 The Mimetic Arc
4.3 Narrative Identity Between Art and Life
5. Identity and Selfhood
5.1 Identity and Language
5.2 Identity and Sameness
5.3 Identity, Selfhood, and Ontology
Conclusion
Ethical Reciprocity or Mutuality?
Identifying Selfhood
Notes
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Index
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