Ricoeur on Time and Narrative by William C Dowling

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Communicates to readers the intellectual excitement of following Ricoeur’s dismantling of established theories and arguments while coming to see how, under the pressure of Ricoeur’s analysis, these ideas are reconstituted and revealed in a new set of relations to one another.

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Ricoeur on Time and Narrative by William C Dowling

Ricoeur on Time and Narrative strikes just the right balance by providing a succinct and substantive presentation of Ricoeurs argument in Time and Narrative.

"The scholarship in William CDowling's Ricoeur on Time and Narrative is impeccable; Dowling knows Ricoeur inside out. He highlights Ricoeur's most important arguments, presents them in a limpid, concise language, and links them to the relevant nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophical developments. Dowling's book provides us with a lucid, intelligible version of Ricoeur's major work, one that will be of considerable significance to philosophers, historians, and literary theorists." —Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor of French Literature, and the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago


"William C. Dowling's Ricoeur on Time and Narrative is a subtle and remarkably well-sustained piece of work. It provides a detailed introduction to a major work of philosophy and narrative theory—already a considerable achievement, given the difficulty of Ricoeur's text. However, Dowling also shows us, sometimes explicitly, sometimes simply through the way he conducts his argument, why we should bother with Ricoeur—what we have to gain from knowing him better than we do, however well we may think we know him." —Michael Wood, Princeton University


“This subtle and remarkably well-sustained piece of work provides a detailed introduction to a major work of philosophy and narrative theory.” —Michael Wood, Princeton University


Ricoeur on Time and Narrative strikes just the right balance by providing a succinct and substantive presentation of Ricoeur’s argument in Time and Narrative. . . . Teachers of Ricoeur’s work will appreciate Dowling’s ability to contextualize Ricoeur’s engagement with a wide range of his contemporaries, while scholars are likely to turn to it as a valuable reference point for their own engagements with specific issues in Ricoeur studies.” —Philosophy in Review

William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. In literary theory, he is the author ofJameson, Althusser, Marx: An Introduction to "The Political Unconscious" and The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory.

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ISBN 13 9780268026080
ISBN 10 0268026084
Title Ricoeur on Time and Narrative
Author William C Dowling
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
Year published 2011-10-30
Number of pages 136
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