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From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema
Univ. Toronto Press | 2008 | ISBN 0802098851 | 224 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, From Plato to Lumière challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are mediated by an "underlying narrator" who exists between the author and narrative text.
Offering illuminating insights, definitions, and formal distinctions, Gaudreault examines the practices of novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers and applies his theory to the early cinema of the Lumière brothers and more recent films. He also enhances our understanding of how narrative develops visually without language - monstration - by detailing how the evolution of the medium influenced narratives in cinema. From Plato to Lumière includes a translation of Paul Ricoeur's preface to the French-language edition as well as a new preface by Tom Gunning. It is a must-read for cinema and media students and scholars and an essential text on the study of narrative.
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Creativity and Critique (Social and Critical Theory)
BRILL | 2009 | 214 Pages | ISBN 9004157794 | PDF | 1.56 MB
Constructing a dialogue between the social theory of Alain Touraine and the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, this work locates the wellsprings of the renewed intepretative powers of Touraine's recent sociology of the subject and critique of modernity in an implicit and unfinished, but unmistakable 'hermeneutical turn'.
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Deleuze and Ricoeur: Disavowed Affinities and the Narrative Self
Continuum | 2009 | ISBN 1441124489 | 240 Pages | PDF OCR | 6.7 MB
This is a highly original analysis of Paul Ricoeur's 'narrative self', specifically in relation to the philosophy of difference articulated by Gilles Deleuze, thus bringing together two giants of twentieth-century Continental philosophy for the first time. What is the self? Is it the impregnable cogito of Descartes or the shattered self of Nietzsche? Or has it become serendipitously constituted from pieces of fairy tales and novels, childhood comics and soap operas - a multitude of forces culled from fashion, modern myth, culture and recreation? Or must we still convince ourselves, like Rousseau, that the self can never be tainted; that it is, above all else, irrefrangible? Paul Ricoeur proposed that the self is formed within the narratives we tell of ourselves, that it is itself a form of narrative. But is this enough? Could a self cohere in a multitude of potential narratives or find unity among its stories? In this book, Declan Sheerin challenges the theory that the self is narrative alone or that concordance reigns over discordance in the self. Drawing upon the works of Gilles Deleuze, he proposes that deep to the sense of a unified, represented self is a more fundamental self of difference, a self that is more than merely coherent narrative.
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Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Continuum | 2009 | ISBN 1847061885 | 237 Pages | PDF OCR | 8 MB
This book offers an original and insightful examination of Ricoeur's hermeneutics, a central concept in his work. Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the twentieth Century. In his enormous corpus of work he engaged with literature, history, historiography, politics, theology and ethics, while debating 'truth' and ethical solutions to life in the face of widespread and growing suspicion about whether such a search is either possible or worthwhile.
In "Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion", Alison Scott-Baumann takes a thematic approach that explores Ricoeur's lifelong struggle to be both iconoclastic and yet hopeful, and avoid the slippery slope to relativism. Through an examination of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion', the book reveals strong continuities throughout his work, as well as significant discontinuities, such as the marked way in which he later distanced himself from the 'hermeneutics of suspicion' and his development of new devices in its place, while seeking a hermeneutics of recovery. Scott-Baumann offers a highly original analysis of the hermeneutics of suspicion that will be useful to the fields of philosophy, literature, theology and postmodern social theory.
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Reading Derrida and Ricoeur: Improbable Encounters Between Deconstruction and Hermeneutics
State University of New York Press 2010 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 1438429495 | PDF | 1 MB
Written in the aftermath of the deaths of the French philosophers Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), this book is an important and innovative study of the contentious relation between deconstruction and hermeneutics. Offering close readings of Derrida's and Ricoeur's writings on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralist linguistics, and Levinasian ethics, Eftichis Pirovolakis introduces the motif of "improbable encounters," and explicates why the two thinkers may be said to be simultaneously close to each other and separated by an unbridgeable abyss.
Pirovolakis complicates any facile distinction between these movements, which are two of the most influential streams of continental thought, and questions a certain pathos with respect to the distance separating them. Pirovolakis also translates Derrida's brief tribute to Ricoeur: "The Word: Giving, Naming, Calling," which appears here in English for the first time. The book is essential reading for anyone immersed in continental philosophy or literary theory.
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Ricoeur's Critical Theory
State University of New York Press | 2003-02-27 | ISBN: 0791456951 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
The first book-length treatment of Paul Ricoeur's conception of philosophy as critical theory.
"There's still, I feel, much room for both introductory as well as critical studies on Ricoeur's 'ouvre' (although there have been some acceptable studies already from the late 80's). Most of those studies either (dis)cover Ricoeur's ouvre as a big story in temporal-biographical development, or they concentrate on an individual theme or characteristics of Ricoeur's theory. What seems to be highly typical in those studies is the constant need to use definite descriptions a' la 'it is hermeneutics', 'that makes him a phenomenologist', 'not a structuralist' etc. What is missing is the development of ideas in argumentation or dialogical comparison/discussion. That we get from Kaplan's almost massive study. Because of that, we get also views on those knots, sciasmas and aporias wich characterise Ricoeur's way of doing philosophy in a constant dialogue with philosophies wich seem at first be very unspoken in ricoeurean language. Kaplan's is highly recommendable, as is the choice to read it together with Simms' superb 'Ricoeur and Lacan'."
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Phenomenology or Deconstruction?: The Question of Ontology in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean-Luc Nancy
Edinburgh University Press | ISBN: 0748637591 | 2009 | PDF | 304 pages | 1,08 mb
Phenomenology or Deconstruction? contains new readings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Jacques Derrida's engagement with phenomenological themes generates a new understanding of "being" and "presence" that exposes significant blindspots in traditional readings of both phenomenology and deconstruction. In reproducing neither a stock phenomenological reaction to deconstruction nor the routine deconstructive reading of phenomenology, Christopher Watkin provides a fresh assessment of the future of phenomenology along with a new reading of the deconstructive legacy.
Through careful studies of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and Nancy, Watkin shows how a phenomenological tradition much wider and richer than Husserl or Heidegger takes into account Derrida's critique of ontology while maintaining a commitment to the ontological. This new reading fundamentally recasts the relation between deconstruction and phenomenology and marks the first sustained discussion of the possibilities and problems for future "deconstructive phenomenology."
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Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought
Routledge | 2002 | ISBN 0415938430 | 256 Pages | PDF OCR | 31 MB
Here, some of the most influential thinkers in theological and philosophical ethics develop new directions for research in contemporary moral thought. Taking as their starting point Ricoeur's recent work on moral anthropology, the contributors set a vital agenda for future conversations about ethics and just community.
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