Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology as Hermeneutics of Liberation

Taylor & Francis

Paul Ricoeurs Philosophical Anthropology as Hermeneutics of LiberationFreedom, Justice, and the Power of Imagination\nAuthor(s): Roger W.H. Savage\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367898786, 978-0367898786\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a unique account of the role imagination plays in advancing the course of freedoms actualization. It draws on Paul Ricoeurs philosophical anthropology of the capable human being as the staging ground for an extended inquiry into the challenges of making freedom a reality within the history of humankind. This book locates the abilities we exercise as capable human beings at the heart of a sustained analysis and reflection on the place of the idea of justice in a hermeneutics for which every expectation regarding rights, liberties, and opportunities must be a hope for humanity as a whole. The vision of a reconciled humanity that for Ricoeur figures in a philosophy of the will provides.