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Dialectic of Sedimentation and Innovation: Paul Ricoeur on Creativity after the Subject - Mabiala Justin, Robert kenzo

Peter Lang | 2009 | ISBN 1433105675 | 300 Pages | PDF OCR | 14 MB

One of the most important developments in the episteme of our time is the recognition that all being and all knowing are socially conditioned. This recognition raises the question of subjective creativity. Is creativity or innovation possible? And what is the locus of creativity? Is it the subject or the structure of the structures of being of which it the subject is part? Any notion of creativity that takes seriously the condition of being is therefore bound to deal with the perennial issue of freedom and determinism. This book examines the contribution of Paul Ricoeur to this question for the purpose of theological consumption.

Ricoeur's philosophical reconstruction of the subject as self creates a space midway between the modern self-positing subject and the postmodern deconstructed subject where reason rule but does not tyrannize. It is from this space that he proposes a view of humanity that argues that to be human is to be homo voluntas, homo lingua, and homo capax. The book seeks to theologically appropriate these notions for need of an Africa in quest of a new creative identity.


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