Time and Narrative, Volume 1, 2nd Edition by Paul Ricoeur - ISBN: 9780226713328
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Time shaped by stories, stories shaped by time: a timeless circle.

Time and Narrative, Volume 1, 2nd Edition

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  • Paperback

    281 pages

  • Release Date

    15 September 1990

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Summary

Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur’s earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern.

Ricoeur finds a “healthy circle” between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent that it portrays temporal experience. Ricoeur proposes a theoretical model of this circle using Augustine’s the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780226713328
ISBN-10:0226713326
Author:Paul Ricoeur, Kathleen McLaughlin, David Pellauer
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:University of Chicago Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:281
Edition:2nd
Release Date:15 September 1990
Weight:454g
Dimensions:23mm x 15mm x 2mm
Series:Time & Narrative
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Critics Review

“Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative (1984) remains an inspiring and influential work on ethics, memory, and the duty to act justly toward oneself and the stranger.”– “Religious Studies Review”

About The Author

Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur is the John Nuveen Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School, professor of philosophy, and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was for many years dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at the University of Paris X (Nanterre).

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