9781793600912: Reading Ricoeur through Law (Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur)

Synopsis

Reading Ricoeur through Law, edited by Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor, and Eileen Brennan, is the first collection of essays solely focused on Ricoeur’s thinking about law, bringing together both established and emerging scholars to offer a systematic and critical examination of Ricoeur’s legal thinking. The chapters not only explore the specific contribution Ricoeur makes to the field of jurisprudence but also examine how Ricoeur’s work on law fits, complements, or changes his overall anthropology, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. The book provides a complex insight into how law, ethics, and politics intertwine both from within law as normative rule setting, as well as through the wider social-political and historical context in which law and legal institutions affect our inter-subjective and communal life as lived “with and for others in just institutions.” The collection also makes available in English “The Just between the Legal and the Good,” a key text in Ricoeur’s reflections about law and justice. The core topics of this collection are rights, justice, responsibility, judging, interpretation, argumentation, punishment, and authority, but contributors also offer original insights in how Ricoeur’s philosophical reconceptualization of symbolism, action, ideology, narrative, selfhood, testimony, history, trauma, reconciliation, justice, and forgiveness can be made productive for our understanding of law and legal institutions.

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About the Authors

Marc de Leeuw is senior lecturer in legal philosophy at the University of New South Wales.

George H. Taylor is emeritus professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh.

Eileen Brennan is lecturer of philosophy at the DCU Institute of Education at Dublin City University.

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9781793600936: Reading Ricoeur through Law (Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur)

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ISBN 10:  1793600937 ISBN 13:  9781793600936
Publisher: Lexington Books, 2024
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