Ricoeur as Another

The Ethics of Subjectivity

Richard A. Cohen, James L. Marsh, Richard A. Cohen, James L. Marsh

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN:
  9780791451908
  9780791451892
• eBook ISBN:
  9780791489444
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Leading scholars address Paul Ricoeur's last major work, Oneself as Another.

This collection of essays by internationally known Paul Ricoeur experts explores the noted philosopher's book, Oneself as Another. Ricoeur's book represents the completion of a decades-long inquiry into the self as he links his earlier studies of symbolism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, the philosophy of language, action theory, and theory of narrative to his most recent concern for ethics and the social constitution of ethical subjectivity.

Cohen and Marsh's volume is divided into two parts, the first primarily involving Ricoeur's thought itself, and the second involving the relation of his thought to that of others, such as Levinas, Rawls, Habermas, Apel, Taylor, and MacIntyre. The contributors also offer detailed examinations of Ricoeur's ethical theory and its ontological implications.

Table of contents

• RICOEUR AS ANOTHER: The Ethics of Subjectivity
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sigla
• PART ONE: RICOEUR IN HIMSELF
• 1. Personal Identity
• 2. The Doubleness of Subjectivity: Regenerating the Phenomenology of Intentionality
• 3. Rethinking Subjectivity: Narrative Identity and the Self
• 4. Can There Be a Science of Action?
• 5. Literary and Science Fictions: Philosophers and Technomyths
• PART TWO: RICOEUR IN RELATION TO OTHERS
• 6. Ricoeur and Levinas: Solicitude in Reciprocity and Solitude in Existence
• 7. Moral Selfhood: A Levinasian Response to Ricoeur on Levinas
• 8. Between Conviction and Critique: Reflexive Philosophy, Testimony, and Pneumatology
• 9. At the Limit of Practical Wisdom: Moral Blindness
• 10. Response to Rawls
• 11. The Right and the Good: A Solution to the Communicative Ethics Controversy
• About the Contributors
• Index