Time and Narrative, Volume 1

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Paul Ricoeur (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago) Kathleen McLaughlin

Time and Narrative, Volume 1

Paul Ricoeur (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago), Kathleen McLaughlin, David Pellauer

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Chicago University Press
15 September 1990

Semantics; History: theory & methods; Philosophy

"Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern.

Ricoeur finds a ""healthy circle"" between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent that it portrays temporal experience. Ricoeur proposes a theoretical model of this circle using Augustine's theory of time and Aristotle's theory of plot and, further, develops an original thesis of the mimetic function of narrative. He concludes with a comprehensive survey and critique of modern discussions of historical knowledge, understanding, and writing from Aron and Mandelbaum in the late 1930s to the work of the Annales school and that of Anglophone philosophers of history of the 1960s and 1970s.

""This work, in my view, puts the whole problem of narrative, not to mention philosophy of history, on a new and higher plane of discussion.""—Hayden White, History and Theory

""Superb. . . . A fine point of entrance into the work of one of the eminent thinkers of the present intellectual age.""—Joseph R. Gusfield, Contemporary Sociology"

By: Paul Ricoeur (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago)
Translated by: Kathleen McLaughlin, David Pellauer
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780226713328
ISBN 10: 0226713326
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 15 September 1990
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Ricoeur is the John Nuveen Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School, professor of philosophy, and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was for many years dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at the University of Paris X (Nanterre).<br>