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London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781472548269
Content:
Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Bibliographic Note -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. Reading Ricoeur on Negation -- 2. The Negation Papers -- 3. Heraclitus, Parmenides and Plato: Before the Logic of Negation -- 4. Hegel's Dialectical Dominance -- 5. Kant: Negation in a Philosophy of Limits -- 6. Affirmative Negatives: Nietzsche, Sartre, Deleuze, Murdoch - and Plotinus -- 7. Happiness - and you, what will you do? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"Ricœur 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. Ricœur 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 on not being able to know God) and existential nothingness (Sartre). Ricœur, working on Kant, Hegel and Sartre, decided that all these forms of negation are incompatible and also fatally flawed because they fail to resolve false binaries of negative: positive. Alison Scott-Baumann demonstrates how Ricœur subsequently incorporated negation into his linguistic turn, using dialectics, metaphor, narrative, parable and translation in order to show how negation is in us, not outside us: language both creates and clarifies false binaries. He bestows upon negation a strong and central role in the human condition, and its inevitability is reflected in his writings, if we look carefully. Ricœur and the Negation of Happiness draws on Ricœur's published works, previously unavailable archival material and many other sources. Alison Scott-Baumann argues that thinking positively is necessary but not sufficient for aspiring to happiness - what is also required is affirmation of negative impulses: we know we are split by contradictions and still try to overcome them. She also demonstrates the urgency of analysing current socio-cultural debates about wellbeing, education and equality, which rest insecurely upon our loose use of the negative as a category mistake."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Language:
English
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DOI:
10.5040/9781472548269
