Paul Ricoeur's Philosophical Anthropology as Hermeneutics of Liberation: Freedom, Justice, and the Power of Imagination - Paperback

by Roger W. H. Savage (Author)

This book offers a unique account of the role imagination plays in advancing the course of freedom's actualization. It draws on Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology of the capable human being as the staging ground for an extended inquiry into the difficulties of making freedom a reality within the history of humankind.

Author Biography

Roger W. H. Savage is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in hermeneutics, aesthetics, and politics. He is the author of Hermeneutics and Music Criticism and Music, Time, and Its Other: Aesthetic Reflections on Finitude, Temporality, and Alterity. He has also edited two books on the work of Paul Ricoeur: Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis, and Critique and Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body.