Ricoeur on Time and Narrative by William C. Dowling - 9780268204518

University of Notre Dame Press

Ricoeur on Time and NarrativeAn Introduction to Temps Et Rcit\nAuthor(s): William C. Dowling\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268204518, 978-0268204518\nSynopsis\n\""The object of this book,\"" writes William C. Dowling in his preface, \""is to make the key concepts of Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative available to readers who might have felt bewildered by the twists and turns of its argument.\"" The sources of puzzlement are, he notes, many. For some, it is Ricoeur's famously indirect style of presentation, in which the polarities of argument and exegesis seem so often and so suddenly to have reversed themselves. For others, it is the extraordinary intellectual range of Ricoeur's argument, drawing on traditions as distant from each other as Heideggerian existentialism, French structuralism, and Anglo-American analytic philosophy. Yet beneath the labyrinthian surface of Ricoeur's Temps et rc.