Paul Ricœur
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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"Paul Ricœur was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. In this book he turns to a topic at the heart of much of his work: what is translation and why is it so important? He reminds us that translation not only spreads knowledge but can change its very meaning."--
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Why do major historical events such as the Holocaust occupy the forefront of the collective consciousness, while profound moments such as the Armenian genocide, the McCarthy era, and France's role in North Africa stand distantly behind? Is it possible that history "overly remembers" some events at the expense of others? A landmark work in philosophy, Paul Ricoeur's Memory, History, Forgetting examines this reciprocal relationship between remembering...
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The first volume in the eminent philosopher's three-part examination of time and narrative, exploring their relationship in the context of historical writing.
“Time and Narrative” builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in “The Rule of Metaphor”, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern.
Ricoeur finds...
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Jean-Pierre Changeux, Professor of Neurobiology at the College de France, is the author of Neuronal Man and, with Alain Connes, Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics (both Princeton). Paul Ricoeur is a hermeneutic philosopher and the author of many books, including Time and Narrative.
Will understanding our brains help us to know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness?...
