Reading Ricœur from the periphery : decolonization, modernity, hermeneutics /

Ernst Wolff offers an original perspective on Paul Ricœur's philosophy by situating it in the context of his early socio-political commitments. The book refutes the common view of this philosophy as an abstract scholarly practice, born in reaction to modernity and secularization, and sets out...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolff, Ernst (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2025.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Endorsements
  • Contents
  • Fueling the Conflict of Interpretations
  • Preface to the English Translation
  • The Question of the Colonies
  • Responsibility and Freedom
  • Resistance and Geopolitics
  • History, Modernity, Relativism
  • On the Questions to which Ricœur's Hermeneutics Respond
  • Human in the Plural. Dialogue Without an Arbiter
  • Of What is Ricœur the Name?
  • Preface to the Brazilian translation