{"product_id":"ricoeur-on-time-and-narrative-an-introduction-to-temps-et-recit-paperback","title":"Ricoeur on Time and Narrative: An Introduction to Temps Et Récit - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam C. Dowling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The object of this book,\" writes William C. Dowling in his preface, \"is to make the key concepts of Paul Ricoeur's \u003ci\u003eTime and Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e available to readers who might have felt bewildered by the twists and turns of its argument.\" The sources of puzzlement are, he notes, many. For some, it is Ricoeur's famously indirect style of presentation, in which the polarities of argument and exegesis seem so often and so suddenly to have reversed themselves. For others, it is the extraordinary intellectual range of Ricoeur's argument, drawing on traditions as distant from each other as Heideggerian existentialism, French structuralism, and Anglo-American analytic philosophy. Yet beneath the labyrinthian surface of Ricoeur's \u003ci\u003eTemps et récit\u003c\/i\u003e, Dowling reveals a single extended argument that, though developed unsystematically, is meant to be understood in systematic terms. \u003ci\u003eRicoeur on Time and Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e presents that argument in clear and concise terms, in a way that will be enlightening both to readers new to Ricoeur and those who may have felt themselves adrift in the complexities of \u003ci\u003eTemps et récit\u003c\/i\u003e, Ricoeur's last major philosophical work. Dowling divides his discussion into six chapters, all closely involved with specific arguments in \u003ci\u003eTemps et récit\u003c\/i\u003e: on mimesis, time, narrativity, semantics of action, poetics of history, and poetics of fiction. Additionally, Dowling provides a preface that lays out the French intellectual context of Ricoeur's philosophical method. An appendix presents his English translation of a personal interview in which Ricoeur, having completed \u003ci\u003eTime and Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e, looks back over his long career as an internationally renowned philosopher. \u003ci\u003eRicoeur on Time and Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e communicates to readers the intellectual excitement of following Ricoeur's dismantling of established theories and arguments--Aristotle and Augustine and Husserl on time, Frye and Greimas on narrative structure, Arthur Danto and Louis O. Mink on the nature of historical explanation--while coming to see how, under the pressure of Ricoeur's analysis, these ideas are reconstituted and revealed in a new set of relations to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. In literary theory, he is the author of\u003ci\u003eJameson, Althusser, Marx: An Introduction to \"The Political Unconscious\" \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45306036125798,"sku":"9780268026080","price":55.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/RU1UVzFpbyt5RHVyL2pSdEdiMk1TUT09.webp?v=1774068625","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/ricoeur-on-time-and-narrative-an-introduction-to-temps-et-recit-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}