Political Theory & Ideology, Major Branches of Philosophical Study, Legal Theory & Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Overview
The essays in this book contain some of Paul Ricoeur's most fascinating ruminations on the nature of justice and the law. His thoughts ranging across a number of topics and engaging the work of thinkers both classical and contemporary, Ricoeur offers a series of important reflections on the juridical and the philosophical concepts of right and the space between moral theory and politics.Synopsis
The essays in this book contain some of Paul Ricoeur's most fascinating ruminations on the nature of justice and the law. His thoughts ranging across a number of topics and engaging the work of thinkers both classical and contemporary, Ricoeur offers a series of important reflections on the juridical and the philosophical concepts of right and the space between moral theory and politics.
Journal of Religion
“In these essays, Ricoeur applies his hermeneutical theory of the capable person, articulated in the magisterial Oneself as Another, to the philosophy of law and justice, demonstrating once again the remarkable breadth of his research project.”—Michael Johnson, Journal of Religion
— Michael Johnson
Editorials
Radical Philosophy
The novelties of this book are the analyses of different phases of judicial practice: hearing, judging, sanction, rehabilitation and pardon. It is fascinating to read how Ricoeur analyses these with his hermeneutics of detours or hermeneutics of distanciation, attempting to do justice to both interpretation and argumentation, both punishment and pardon, and so on.”— Arto Laitinen
Review of Metaphysics
The essays assembled in The Just are at once essential readings for anyone concerned with the link between ethics, law, and politics and perfect complements to the seventh, eighth, and ninth studies contained in Oneself as Another. However, knowledge of Ricoeur’s earlier writings is not a prerequisite for understanding the content of these essays since he retains the style of a moderator by engaging the most powerful authors on justice available: Aristotle, Kant, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, to name a few.”— Paul Gyllenhammer
Ethics
In essays on Rawls, Michael Walzer, and Ronald Dworkin, among American philosophers and Hannah Arendt and Luc Botanski among European theorists, Ricoeur sketches a distinctive position on questions of justice that straddles the liberal/communitarian divide common in the Anglo-American world. . . . [Ricoeur provides] a fresh perspective on current debates within his own interesting account of the structure of moral action.—Georgia Warnke, Ethics— Georgia Warnke
Journal of Religion
In these essays, Ricoeur applies his hermeneutical theory of the capable person, articulated in the magisterial Oneself as Another, to the philosophy of law and justice, demonstrating once again the remarkable breadth of his research project.”— Michael Johnson
Radical Philosophy -
“The novelties of this book are the analyses of different phases of judicial practice: hearing, judging, sanction, rehabilitation and pardon. It is fascinating to read how Ricoeur analyses these with his hermeneutics of detours or hermeneutics of distanciation, attempting to do justice to both interpretation and argumentation, both punishment and pardon, and so on.”Review of Metaphysics -
“The essays assembled in The Just are at once essential readings for anyone concerned with the link between ethics, law, and politics and perfect complements to the seventh, eighth, and ninth studies contained in Oneself as Another. However, knowledge of Ricoeur’s earlier writings is not a prerequisite for understanding the content of these essays since he retains the style of a moderator by engaging the most powerful authors on justice available: Aristotle, Kant, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, to name a few.”Ethics -
“In essays on Rawls, Michael Walzer, and Ronald Dworkin, among American philosophers and Hannah Arendt and Luc Botanski among European theorists, Ricoeur sketches a distinctive position on questions of justice that straddles the liberal/communitarian divide common in the Anglo-American world. . . . [Ricoeur provides] a fresh perspective on current debates within his own interesting account of the structure of moral action.”--Georgia Warnke, EthicsJournal of Religion -
“In these essays, Ricoeur applies his hermeneutical theory of the capable person, articulated in the magisterial Oneself as Another, to the philosophy of law and justice, demonstrating once again the remarkable breadth of his research project.”Book Details
Published
September 1, 2003
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780226713403