Full Description
Reading Ricoeur through Law, edited by Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor, and Eileen Brennan, is the first collection of essays solely focused on Ricoeur's thinking about law, bringing together both established and emerging scholars to offer a systematic and critical examination of Ricoeur's legal thinking. The chapters not only explore the specific contribution Ricoeur makes to the field of jurisprudence but also examine how Ricoeur's work on law fits, complements, or changes his overall anthropology, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. The book provides a complex insight into how law, ethics, and politics intertwine both from within law as normative rule setting, as well as through the wider social-political and historical context in which law and legal institutions affect our inter-subjective and communal life as lived "with and for others in just institutions." The collection also makes available in English "The Just between the Legal and the Good," a key text in Ricoeur's reflections about law and justice. The core topics of this collection are rights, justice, responsibility, judging, interpretation, argumentation, punishment, and authority, but contributors also offer original insights in how Ricoeur's philosophical reconceptualization of symbolism, action, ideology, narrative, selfhood, testimony, history, trauma, reconciliation, justice, and forgiveness can be made productive for our understanding of law and legal institutions.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Ricoeur Through Law
Marc De Leeuw, George H. Taylor, Eileen Brennan
Introduction to Paul Ricoeur's "The Just Between the Legal and the Good"
The Just Between the Legal and the Good
Paul Ricoeur
The Plurality of Instances of Justice
Paul Ricoeur
Reply to Paul Ricoeur
Ronald Dworkin
Juridical Precedents and Reflective Judgment
Roger W. H. Savage
The Subject of Rights and Responsibility in Ricoeur's Legal Philosophy
Guido Gorgoni
Symbolism and the Generativity of Justice
Antoine Garapon
Ricoeur, Narrative, and Legal Contingency
George H. Taylor
Ricoeur's Juridical Anthropology: Law, Autonomy, and a Life Lived-in-Common
Marc De Leeuw
The Unbearable Between-ness of Law
Francis J. Mootz III
Law and Metadiscourse: Ricoeur on Metaphysics and the Ascription of Rights
Geoffrey Dierckxsens
Between Truth and Justice. Ricoeur on the Roles and Limits of Narrative in Legal Processes
Marie-Hélène Desmeules
Law and (Dis)empowerment: On Ricoeur's Phenomenology of Judging
Hans Lindahl
The "Crisis of Witnessing" and Trauma on the Stand: Attending to Survivors as an Obligation of Justice
Stephanie Arel
The Interaction Between Love and Justice in the Legal System
Walter Salles
Forgiveness at the Border of Law
Oliver Abel
Law and Evil in Paul Ricoeur's Thought
Bertrand Mazabraud
About the Contributors
