Meanings in Texts and Actions: Questioning Paul Ricoeur (Studies in Religion and Culture)

By David E. Klemm

Book Overview

What does it mean that understanding is the primary mode of human being in the world? How can new symbols refigure human temporal possibilities and narrative understandings? How do we interpret life, and what can be claimed as truth? These and related questions are explored by a collection of scholars from a variety of disciplines in Meanings in Texts and Actions. These essays constitute a critical encounter with the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, who - along with Hans-Georg Gadamer - was largely responsible for the post-war emergence of a new hermeneutics. Having engaged in critical debates with thinkers in virtually every humanistic discipline, Ricoeur has managed to create a conversation among them, as this collection attests.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813914116
• ISBN13: 9780813914114
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"