Ricoeur's Critical Theory
ISBN-13:
9780791456965
ISBN-10:
079145696X
Author:
David M. Kaplan
Publication date:
2003
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Format:
Paperback
236 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780791456965
ISBN-10:
079145696X
Author:
David M. Kaplan
Publication date:
2003
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Format:
Paperback
236 pages
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Ricoeur's Critical Theory (ISBN-13: 9780791456965 and ISBN-10: 079145696X), written by authors
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The first book-length treatment of Paul Ricoeur's conception of philosophy as critical theory.
In Ricoeur’s Critical Theory, David M. Kaplan revisits the Habermas-Gadamer debates to show how Paul Ricoeur’s narrative-hermeneutics and moral-political philosophy provide a superior interpretive, normative, and critical framework. Arguing that Ricoeur’s unique version of critical theory surpasses the hermeneutic philosophy of Gadamer, Kaplan adds a theory of argumentation necessary to criticize false consciousness and distorted communication. He also argues that Ricoeur develops Habermas’s critical theory, adding an imaginative, creative dimension and a concern for community values and ideas of the Good Life. He then shows how Ricoeur’s political philosophy steers a delicate path between liberalism, communitarianism, and socialism. Ricoeur’s version of critical theory not only identifies and criticizes social pathologies, posits Kaplan, but also projects utopian alternatives for personal and social transformation that would counter and heal the effects of unjust societies. The author concludes by applying Ricoeur’s critical theory to three related problems―the politics of identity and recognition, technology, and globalization and democracy―to show how his works add depth, complexity, and practical solutions to these problems.
In Ricoeur’s Critical Theory, David M. Kaplan revisits the Habermas-Gadamer debates to show how Paul Ricoeur’s narrative-hermeneutics and moral-political philosophy provide a superior interpretive, normative, and critical framework. Arguing that Ricoeur’s unique version of critical theory surpasses the hermeneutic philosophy of Gadamer, Kaplan adds a theory of argumentation necessary to criticize false consciousness and distorted communication. He also argues that Ricoeur develops Habermas’s critical theory, adding an imaginative, creative dimension and a concern for community values and ideas of the Good Life. He then shows how Ricoeur’s political philosophy steers a delicate path between liberalism, communitarianism, and socialism. Ricoeur’s version of critical theory not only identifies and criticizes social pathologies, posits Kaplan, but also projects utopian alternatives for personal and social transformation that would counter and heal the effects of unjust societies. The author concludes by applying Ricoeur’s critical theory to three related problems―the politics of identity and recognition, technology, and globalization and democracy―to show how his works add depth, complexity, and practical solutions to these problems.
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