Dialectic of Sedimentation and Innovation
Dialectic of Sedimentation and Innovation

Author: Mabiala Justin-Robert Kenzo

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781433105678

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One of the most important developments in the episteme of our time is the recognition that all being and all knowing are socially conditioned. This recognition raises the question of subjective creativity: Is creativity or innovation possible? What is the locus of creativity? Is it the subject or the structure of the structures of being of which the subject is part? Any notion of creativity that takes seriously the condition of being is therefore bound to deal with the perennial issue of freedom and determinism. Dialectic of Sedimentation and Innovation examines the contribution of Paul Ricoeur to this question for the purpose of theological consumption. Ricoeur's philosophical reconstruction of the subject as self creates a space midway between the modern self-positing subject and the postmodern deconstructed subject where reason rules but does not tyrannize. It is from this space that he proposes a view of humanity that argues that to be human is to be homo voluntas, homo lingua, and homo capax. Dialectic of Sedimentation and Innovation seeks to theologically appropriate these notions for Africa's quest for a new creative identity.

A Ricoeurian Analysis of Identity Formation in Philippians
A Ricoeurian Analysis of Identity Formation in Philippians

Author: Scott Ying Lam Yip

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0567711021

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Winner of the Outstanding Theological Research Book Award 2024 Scott Ying Lam Yip presents the first specialized narrative study devoted to the identity formation processes in Philippians, based on Paul Ricoeur's narrative theory. Yip demonstrates that the “Christian identity” of the Philippian community is shaped amidst competing narratives with divergent comprehensions, and suggests that it is within an intra-Jewish contestation of testimonies that Paul updates his understanding of God and contends with a group of Jewish Christian leaders regarding the meaning of his suffering. Yip argues that Paul faces a double contestation of narrative in which both the political authorities and a group of Jewish Christian leaders see his imprisonment as futile and unnecessary; alerting him to an emerging crisis in which the Philippian community's conviction in suffering with him has begun to decline. It is thus essential for Paul to synthesise and install a new paradigmatic story of Christ so that his suffering can be discerned as the defining mark of God's renewed manifestation in an era of Christ's eschatological Lordship. Yip explores the means by which Paul - in a contestation of authority for the re-appropriation of God's past work - contrasts the future-oriented temporality of his testimony with the past-oriented one of the Jewish Christian leaders. He concludes that Paul affirms the value of his present suffering in truthfulness and installs his testimony to be the exemplary story for the Philippian community.

Phenomenology and the Social World
Phenomenology and the Social World

Author: Laurie Spurling

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1134480083

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The term ‘phenomenology’ has become almost as over-used and emptied of meaning as that other word from Continental Philosophy, namely ‘existentialism’. Yet Husserl, who first put forward the phenomenological method, considered it a rigorous alternative to positivism, and in the hands of Merleau-Ponty, a disciple of Husserl in France, phenomenology became a way of gaining a disciplined and coherent perspective on the world in which we live. When this study originally published in 1977 there were only a few books in English on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. It introduced the reader and suggested how his thought might throw light on some of the assumptions and presuppositions of certain contemporary forms of Anglo-Saxon philosophy and social science. It also demonstrates how phenomenology seeks to unite philosophy and social science, rather than define them as mutually exclusive domains of knowledge.

Lost in Dialogue
Lost in Dialogue

Author: Giovanni Stanghellini

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0198792069

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In this book Stanghellini argues that to be human means to be in dialogue with alterity, that mental pathology is the outcome of a crisis of one's dialogue with alterity, and that care is a method wherein dialogues take place whose aim is to re-enact interrupted dialogue with alterity within oneself and with the external world.

On Paul Ricoeur
On Paul Ricoeur

Author: David Wood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 113490570X

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A collection of essays, including three pieces by Ricoeur himself, examining this subject. Ricoeur's study of the intertwining of time and narrative proposes and examines the possibility that narrative could remedy a fatal deficiency in any purely phenomenological approach.

On Paul Ricoeur
On Paul Ricoeur

Author: Richard Kearney

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1351913859

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This volume begins with a brief overview of the most important features of Ricoeur's philosophical journey accompanied by a number of studies on the subject. The second part of the study is devoted to other issues in Ricoeur's work based upon five critical exchanges with the author over the last 25 years.

Interreligious Hermeneutics
Interreligious Hermeneutics

Author: Catherine Cornille

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1630874256

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Catherine Cornille, Boston College David Tracy, University of Chicago Divinity School Werner Jeanrond, University of Glasgow Marianne Moyaert, University of Leuven John Maraldo, University of North Florida Reza Shah-Kazemi, Institute of Ismaili Studies Malcolm David Eckel, Boston University Joseph S. O'Leary, Sophia University John P. Keenan, Middlebury College Hendrik Vroom, VU University Amsterdam Laurie Patton, Emory University

Interactive Storytelling
Interactive Storytelling

Author: Alex Mitchell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3319123378

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interactive Storytelling, ICIDS 2014, Singapore, Singapore, November 2014. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 8 short papers 7 posters, and 5 demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on story generation, authoring, evaluation and analysis, theory, retrospectives, and user experience.

Children, Media and Playground Cultures
Children, Media and Playground Cultures

Author: R. Willett

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-06-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1137318074

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Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity.