Course of Recognition

by Paul Ricœur

Book Overview

Recognition, though it figures profoundly in our understanding of objects and persons, identity and ideas, has never before been the subject of a single, sustained philosophical inquiry. This work, by one of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished voices, pursues recognition through its various philosophical guises and meanings--and, through the course of recognition, seeks to develop nothing less than a proper hermeneutics of mutual recognition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674025644
• ISBN13: 9780674025646
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 8.2"