The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in Hermeneutics

By Paul Ricœur

Book Overview

This collection brings together twenty-two essays by Paul Ricoeur under the topics of structuralism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and religion. In dramatic conciseness, the essays illuminate the work of one of the leading philosophers of the day. Those interested in Ricoeur's development of the philosophy of language will find rich and suggestive reading. But the diversity of essays also speaks beyond the confines of philosophy to linguists, theologians, psychologists, and psychoanalysts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810123975
• ISBN13: 9780810123977
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A light in the darkness

Paul Ricoeur's conflict of interpretation represents the (I think successful) attempt to provide a way to get out of the deconstruction of the self operated by Freud and the Psychanalysis.It also gives a great theory about the simbolic use of the language.The text might results sometimes difficult to an unprepared reader.