Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man

Scott Davidson is professor of philosophy at West Virginia University.

• Introduction: The Kantian Architecture of Fallible ManScott DavidsonPART I: HISTORICAL INFLUENCES1 Imagination and Religion: The Myth of Innocence in Fallible Man Daniel Frey 2 Karl Jaspers: The Clarification of ExistenceJérôme Porée3Reflection, the Body, and Fallibility:The Mysterious Influence of Marcel in Ricoeur’s Fallible ManBrian Gregor4The Limitation of the Ethical Vision of the World: The Influence of Jean NabertScott DavidsonPART II: THEMATIC AVENUES 5The Imagination from Ideation to InnocenceLuz Ascárate6“Making Sense of (Moral) Things”: Fallible Man in Relation to Enactivism Geoffrey Dierckxsens7The Self is Embodied and Discursive:Tracing the Phenomenological Background of Ricoeur’s Narrative Identity Annemie Halsema8From Fallibility to Fragility: How the Theory of Narrative Transformed the Notion of Character of Fallible ManPol Vandevelde9The Quest of Recognizing One’s SelfTimo Helenius10Finitude, Culpability and Suffering: The Question of Evil in RicoeurJean-Luc AmalricIndexAbout the Contributors

The book. . . goes a long way toward filling the need for guidance in tackling this challenging work. The anthology is of the highest scholarly caliber, with incisive, probing, and useful contributions. It is a testament to its larger unity that each of the chapters offers something unique, but generally works in harmony with the rest. . . . This Companion is a rich and substantive guide to an early and pivotal work in Ricoeur's career, rendering visible its unvoiced conversations with Ricoeur's philosophical contemporaries, demonstrating its significant debt to the biblical imagination of Christian mythology, and situating it in the complex weave of Ricoeur's intellectual journey early and late. It should be clear by now that I am recommending it as something close to required reading for anyone who wishes to come to terms with one of Ricoeur's more elusive works. Because its individual chapters each contribute to important aspects of its subject, both in Fallible Man's internal argument and its relation to the larger oeuvre, the collection offers a pleasant exception to academic anthologies that serve as loosely related occasional works around a theme. Itwill sit on my bookshelf as a durable reference for a key text.