A01=Paul Ricoeur
Author_Paul Ricoeur
Beauvoir
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continental
embodiment
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existential
existentialism
Heidegger
Henry
Husserl
Levinas
Merleau Ponty
ontology
phenomenological
phenomenology
philosophy
Sartre
Scheler
transcendental
Product details
- ISBN 9780810124004
- Weight: 505g
- Dimensions: 154 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2007
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this volume, Paul Ricoeur investigates the antinomy between history and truth, or between historicity and meaning. He argues that history has meaning insofar as it approaches universality and system, but has no meaning insofar as this universality violates the singularity of individuals' lives. Imposing unity upon truth, or unifying the diversity of knowledge and opinion, creates a singular and universal history but destroys historicity and subjectivity. Allowing for singularities in history promotes a multiplicity of truths over a single, unique truth, and thereby annihilates system.
