Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences

Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation

Paul Ricoeur author John B Thompson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:26th Aug '16

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John B. Thompson's collection of translated essays forms an illuminating introduction to Paul Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory.

John B. Thompson's influential collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur forms a comprehensive and illuminating introduction to Ricoeur's contributions to sociological theory. With a specially commissioned new preface, the book has been revived for a new generation of readers in psychology and the social and political sciences.Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the volume's publication in 1981. As comprehensive as it is illuminating, this lucid introduction to Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory features his more recent writings on the history of hermeneutics, its central themes and issues, his own constructive position and its implications for sociology, psychoanalysis and history. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by Charles Taylor, illuminating its enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this classic work has been revived for a new generation of readers.

'[Ricoeur] does capture a quite crucial point of Peirce's concept of interpretation: its 'synechistic' nature, namely the continuous, non-extrinsic character of the relationship between (to use Ricoeur's terminology) 'tradition' - what a text or other forms of discourse signify (tradit) - and 'interpretation' - what it evokes in the mind of the interpreter.' Francesco Poggiani , Phenomenological Reviews

ISBN: 9781107144972

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm

Weight: 580g

284 pages