Philosophy at the boundary of reason : ethics and postmodernity
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Philosophy at the boundary of reason : ethics and postmodernity
State University of New York Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-276) and index
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Description
In Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason, Patrick Bourgeois clarifies that, although deconstruction has much to offer contemporary thinking, it has gone to some philosophical extremes. Taking a cue from this thinking, Bourgeois develops an alternative direction of thought, turning to the position of Paul Ricoeur.
Ricoeur, in the context of recent postmodern deconstruction, has taken into account its positive aspects, but has provided a viable alternative. Ricoeur is one of the best voices within this context today, but accepts an entirely different view of the basic interpretations of meaning, expressing, language, and the living present. In his own critical move beyond Husserlian phenomenology and Heideggerian hermeneutics, and in his efforts to complete the philosophy of Kant on essential points, he has not lost their gains, but, rather, has transformed them within a more appropriate ethicomoral philosophy. This investigation puts Ricoeur in his rightful place in the center of contemporary philosophical thinking.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
PART I. Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason
1. Ethics as the Limit of Reason
2. Death, End, and Limit of Philosophy
3. Limit, Critique, and Reason
4. Limit and Ground in Practical Reason
PART II. Imagination at the Boundary of Reason
5. Imagination at the Boundary
6. Imagination: Postmodern Deconstruction and Ricoeur
7. Sign, Time, and Trace: Semiotics and the Deconstruction of Presence
PART III. Ethics and Postmodernity
8. Ricoeur and Levinas
9. Ethics and Postmodernity
10. The Ethics of Good, and the Morality of Obligation
11. Judging in Concrete Situations: The Equitable
Notes
Index
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