Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur

Scott Davidson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Oklahoma City University. His research focuses primarily on French phenomenology, and his publications include Totality and Infinity at 50 (2012) and Ricoeur Across the Disciplines (2010). He has also translated several books from French, including most recently, Michel Henry, From Communism to Capitalism (2014) and Didier Franck, Flesh and Body (2014). He is currently an editor of Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy.Marc-Antoine Vallée is Professor at Collège Édouard-Montpetit (Canada).  He is a specialist of hermeneutics and phenomenology (Ricoeur, Gadamer, Heidegger). He is the author of Gadamer et Ricœur. La conception herméneutique du langage (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012) and Le sujet herméneutique. Étude sur la pensée de Paul Ricœur, (Éditions universitaires européennes, 2010).

“This book offers a good sample of the broad scope of Ricoeur’s philosophy, his historical relevance and the possible future of his thinking. The collected essays all stand on their own … resulting in an enriched view on both the influence on and interaction of different philosophical schools in Ricoeur’s philosophy and between the different philosophical disciplines Ricoeur practiced. … individual quality of the different essays in the book is outstanding, which makes the book already worth reading … .” (Leen Verheyen, Phenomenological Reviews, reviews.ophen.org, October, 2016)

• Introduction.- Part I: From Existentialism and Phenomenology to Hermeneutics.- Chapter 1: Ricoeur’s Early Approaches to the Ontological Question.- Chapter 2: Distanciation and Epoché: The Influence of Husserl on Ricoeur's Hermeneutics.- Chapter 3: Thinking the Flesh with Paul Ricoeur.- Part II: Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Self.- Chapter 4: Identity and Selfhood: Paul Ricoeur’s Contribution and its Continuations.- Chapter 5: For a Genealogy of Ipseity.- Chapter 6: The World of Life and the World of the Text: Two Contradictory Paradigms?.- Part III: Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Tradition, Memory and History.- Chapter 7: Word, Writing, Tradition.- Chapter 8: Involuntary Memory and Apprenticeship to the Truth: Ricoeur re-reads Proust.- Chapter 9: Memory, Space, Oblivion.- Chapter 10: What Kind of Past is the Referent of Historical Narratives? Ricoeur’s Critique of Heidegger.- Part IV: Challenges and Future Directions for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology.- Chapter 11: The Conflict of Hermeneutics.- Chapter 12: Intersectional Hermeneutics.- Chapter 13: Hermeneutics and Truth: From Al­ētheia to Attestation.- Chapter 14: Constructing Ricoeur’s Hermeneutical Theory of Truth.