{"product_id":"time-and-narrative-volume-3-9780226713366","title":"Time and Narrative  Volume 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the first two volumes of this work  Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing  fiction  and theories of literature. This final volume  a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2  stands as Ricoeurs most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.  Ricoeurs aim here is to explicate as fully as possible the hypothesis that has governed his inquiry  namely  that the effort of thinking at work in every narrative configuration is completed in a refiguration of temporal experience. To this end  he sets himself the central task of determing how far a poetics of narrative can be said to resolve the \"aporias\"the doubtful or problematic elementsof time. Chief among these aporias are the conflicts between the phenomenological sense of time (that experienced or lived by the individual) and the cosmological sense (that described by history and physics) on the one hand and the oneness or unitary nature of time on the other. In conclusion  Ricoeur reflects upon the inscrutability of time itself and attempts to discern the limits of his own examination of narrative discourse.  \"As in his previous works  Ricoeur labors as an imcomparable mediator of often estranged philosophical approaches  always in a manner that compromises neither rigor nor creativity.\"Mark Kline Taylor  Christian Century  \"In the midst of two opposing contemporary optionseither to flee into ever more precious readings . . . or to retreat into ever more safe readings . . . Ricoeurs work offers an alternative option that is critical  wide-ranging  and conducive to new applications.\"Mary Gerhart  Journal of Religion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666171420725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226713369","price":51.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226713366.jpg?v=1782421566","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/time-and-narrative-volume-3-9780226713366","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}