Freedom and Nature: The Voluntary and the Involuntary (SPEP) - Softcover

Ricoeur, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810105349 ISBN 13: 9780810105348

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1966

Synopsis

Le Volontaire et l'involontaire, presented below as dom and Nature: The Voluntary and the Involuntary, first appeared in Paris in 1950 as the first volume of Paul Ricoeur's La Philosphie de la volonte`. As Ricouer outlined the task in a paper concerning the application of phenomenology to the will, read before the International Colloquium on phenomenology in Brussels the following year, the entire work as to consist of three volumes, the first devoted to the eidetics of the will, the second and third volumes dealing with empirics and poetics. The second volume was published in 1960 under the title Finitude et culpabilite`. It undertakes the projected task of empirics of the will in two parts. The first part, published separately as L'Homme faillible (and, in English translation, as Fallible man), still falls broadly within the limits of description phenomenology. In contrast with the first volume, however, it is concerned with the existential possibilities of man's being: specifically, the possibility of evil. The second part, published the same year under the title La Symbolique du mal, continues the task of empirics of the will, but its focus is no longer possibility, but rather the experiences fact of evil as it is expressed in symbol and myth

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About the Author

Paul Ricoeur (27 February 1913 - 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. As such his thought is situated within the same tradition as other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Erazim V. Kohak is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Boston University. Don Ihde is Distinguished Profssor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He is the author of numerous books, including Postphenomenology: Essays in the Postmodern Context, published by Northwestern University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1966
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810105349
• ISBN 13: 9780810105348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 498