8 The Challenge of the “such as it was”: Ricoeur’s Theory of Narratives

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Reading Ricoeur 1
4. Ricoeur’s Phenomenology of Freedom as an Answer to Sartre 13
5. What Makes Us Think? Two Views 31
6. Philosophy and Kerygma: Ricoeur as Reader of the Bible 47
7. On the Hermeneutics of Evil 71
8. Paul Ricoeur and the Prospects of a New Humanism 89
9. Ricoeur’s Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Religion 109
10. Love Proceeds by Poetic Amplification 129
11. The Challenge of the “such as it was”: Ricoeur’s Theory of Narratives 141
12. Ricoeur and Lyotard in Postmodern Dialogue: Symbol and the Sublime 163
13. Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics: From Critique to Poetics 183
14. Ricoeur’s Critical Theory 197
15. Justice and Interpretation 213
16. Rethinking Ricoeur: The Unity of His Work and the Paradigm of Translation 225
17. Binding and Loosing: Promising and Forgiving, Amnesty and Amnesia 237
18. Contributors 249
19. Index 253