The Ambiguity of Justice: New Perspectives on Paul Ricoeur's Approach to Justice

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42793-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Social and Critical Theory

The Ambiguity of Justice offers a collection of essays on Ricoeur’s thought on justice, and on the different views that influenced this thought, in particular those of Arendt, Honneth, Hénaff, Rawls, Levinas and Boltanski. Although Ricoeur’s idea of justice has undoubtedly caught much attention already, only a few monographs have been published so far that explicitly address this topic.

The contributors of this book – a mix of both well-established Ricoeur scholars and young promising scholars in this field – address the difficulties in Ricoeur’s thought on justice by maintaining his spirit of dialogue, not only by showing how Ricoeur himself repeatedly searches for dialogue in his writings on justice, but also by arguing that Ricoeur’s thought allows contributions to contemporary debates about justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dierckxsens, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: New Perspcectives on Ricoeur’s Ambiguity of Justice

Geoffrey Dierckxsens

Part 1

Ricoeur’s Theory of Justice: an Internal Ambiguity?

1 The Vicissitudes of Justice in the Ethical Triad of Desire, Norm and Prudential Judgment according to Paul Ricoeur

emsp;Beatriz Contreras Tasso

2 Struggle, Violence, and the Idea of Justice

emsp;Roger W. H. Savage

3 Reenvisioning Justice

emsp;George H. Taylor

4 The Ambiguity of Justice Revisited: the Narrative and Imaginative Aspects of Social Power and Embodiment in Ricoeur’s Philosophy

emsp;Geoffrey Dierckxsens

5 Justice despite Institutions. Struggling for a Good Life from the Destitute Edge of Society

emsp;Ernst Wolff

Part 2

Ricoeur and Different Voices on Justice

6 Social Justice and Agape: the Issue of the Struggles for Recognition in Ricoeur’s, Honneth’s and Hénaff’s Thought

emsp;Sébastien Roman (Translated from French by Bonnie Einsiedel)

7 Reshaping Social Justice: Paul Ricoeur’s and Luc Boltanski’s Dialectic of Love and Justice in the Age of Globalization

emsp;Maria Cristina Clorinda Vendra

8 Ricoeur, Rawls and the Aporia of the Just

emsp;Feriel Kandil

9 Influence and Limits of Levinas’ Concept of Responsibility in Ricoeur’s Approach to Justice

emsp;Arthur Cools

10 Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt, and the Journey to Justice

emsp;Morny Joy

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey Dierckxsens, Ph.D. (2015), University of Antwerp, is currently the Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Lab for Bioethics – IRLaB at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has published monographs, book chapters and many articles on Ricoeur, justice and applied ethics, including Paul Ricoeur’s Moral Anthropology: Singularity, Responsibility and Justice (Lexington Books, 2017).