Horizons of meaning : explorations of metaphor and the problem of religious language in the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation is a philosophical exploration that pursues two distinct lines of inquiry through the development of phenomenology in twentieth-century Germany and France, leading up to the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur and his important work on the problem of religious language. The first question is largely thematic: (1) how can we understand the concept of the horizon used as a metaphor within the phenomenological tradition broadly and phenomenological hermeneutics in particular? This question provides the methodological backbone of the project by offering a clear trajectory for working through the philosophy of the study's four central thinkers: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur. The second question constitutes the primary motivating problem driving the study: (2) how do we understand Ricoeur's hermeneutical approach to religious language, and how can we see this work as addressing what I call the modern crisis of religious meaning. My wager is that these two questions are intimately intertwined, and indeed that pursuing the development of the metaphor of the horizon across Ricoeur's vast body of work is the best way to come to a full appreciation of the nuance and value of his theory of religious language. Furthermore, throughout this study I will argue that the deep connection between the question of the horizon and the question of religious language in Ricoeur's thought rests upon the fact that the horizon—as the phenomenological metaphor par excellence—speaks to a set of fundamental experiences that are united by and develop various aspects of the dynamic play of presence and absence found at the heart of Ricoeur's hermeneutical theory.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Chaves, Kevin George |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Sheehan, Thomas |
| Degree supervisor | Sockness, Brent W, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Sheehan, Thomas |
| Thesis advisor | Sockness, Brent W, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Bashir, Shahzad, 1968- |
| Degree committee member | Bashir, Shahzad, 1968- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kevin Chaves. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Religious Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Kevin George Chaves
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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