Ricoeur and the Negation of Happiness

by Alison Scott-Baumann

Book Overview

Ricoeur lectured and wrote for over twenty years on negation ('Do I understand something better if I know what it is not, and what is not-ness?') and never published his extensive writings on this subject. Ricoeur concluded that there are multiple forms of negation; it can, for example, be the other person (Plato), the not knowable nature of our world (Kant), the included opposite (Hegel), apophatic spirituality (Plotinus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780936052
• ISBN13: 9781780936055
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"