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Oneself as Another Reissue Edition
Author(s): Paul Ricoeur (Author), Kathleen Blamey (Translator)
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date: January 1, 1995
- Edition: Reissue
- Language: English
- Print length: 374 pages
- ISBN-10: 0226713296
- ISBN-13: 9780226713298
Book Description
Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. Oneself as Another, the clearest account of his “philosophical ethics,” substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals.
Focusing on the concept of personal identity, Ricoeur develops a hermeneutics of the self that charts its epistemological path and ontological status.
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Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. Oneself as Another, the clearest account of his “philosophical ethics”, substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals. Focusing on the concept of personal identity, Ricoeur develops a hermeneutics of the self that charts its epistemological path and ontological status.
About the Author
Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) was the John Nuveen Professor in the Divinity School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was the author of many books, including Memory, History, Forgetting, Oneself as Another Reissue Edition, and the three-volume Time and Narrative, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
