Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason

Roger W. H. Savage is professor of systematic musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Roger W. H. Savage has put together an important set of essays, which demonstrates various ways in which Ricoeur’s thought and work can offer solutions to a range of problems in contemporary practical philosophy. Each essay expertly considers new and pressing questions in this developing area of Ricoeur scholarship. But the collection is not simply a valuable contribution to how we might understand Ricoeur: it shows its readers intriguing new ways of thinking with and after the philosopher. It is a fine example of the continuing significance of hermeneutic reason as an interpretative approach.

• Introduction: Paul Ricoeur and the Age of Hermeneutical Reason Chapter 1. Marcel Hénaff, Labor, Social Justice, and Recognition: Around Paul RicoeurChapter 2. Marc De Leeuw, The Anthropological Presupposition: Paul Ricoeur’s Search for the JustChapter 3. Annalisa Caputo, Paul Ricoeur, Martha Nussbaum and the “Incapability Approach”Chapter 4. David Pellauer, Narrated Action Grounds Narrative Identity Chapter 5. Anna Borisenkova, “Reading the City: from the Inhabitant to the Flâneur”Chapter 6. Todd Mei, Convictions and Justification Chapter 7. George Taylor, Prospective Political Identity Chapter 8. Roger W. H. Savage, The Wager of Imagination and the Logic of HopeChapter 9. Marianne Moyaert, From Religious Violence to Interreligious HospitalityChapter 10. Richard Kearney, Ricoeur’s Wager of Flesh: Between Phenomenology and HermeneuticsChapter 11. Timo Helenius, The Will, the Body, and Sexuality: Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology of “Being Willing and Able”