The symbolism of evil /
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Author / Creator: | Ricœur, Paul. |
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Uniform title: | Symbolique de mal. English |
Edition: | [1st ed.]. |
Imprint: | New York : Harper & Row, [1967] |
Description: | xv, 357 pages 22 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Religious perspectives, v. 17 Religious perspectives ; v. 17. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1873100 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I
- The primary symbols: defilement, sin, guilt
- Introduction: phenomenology of "confession"
- 1. speculation, myth, and symbol
- 2. criteriology of symbols
- 3. The philosophical "re-enactment" of confession
- Chapter I. Defilement
- 1. The impure
- 2. Ethical terror
- 3. The symbolism of stain
- 4. The sublimation of dread
- Chapter II. Sin
- 1. The category of "before God": the covenant
- 2. The infinite demand and the finite commandment
- 3. The "wrath of God"
- 4. The symbolism of sin: (1) sin as "nothingness"
- 5. The symbolism of sin: (2) sin as positive
- Chapter III. Guilt
- 1. Birth of a new stage
- 2. Guilt and penal imputation
- 3. Scrupulousness
- 4. The impasse of guilt
- Conclusion: recapitulation of the symbolism of evil in the concept of the servile will
- Part II
- The "myths" of the beginning and of the end
- Introduction: The symbolic function of myths
- 1. From the primary symbols to myths
- 2. Myth and gnosis: the symbolic function of the narration
- Toward a "typology" of myths of the beginning and the end of evil
- Chapter I. The drama of creation and the "ritual" vision of the world
- 1. Primordial chaos
- 2. The ritual re-enactment of the creation and the figure of the king
- 3. A "recessive" form of the drama of creation: the hebrew king
- 4. A "mutant" form of the drama of creation: the hellenic titan
- Chapter II. The wicked God and the "tragic" vision of existence
- 1. The pre-tragic themes
- 2. The crux of the tragic
- 3. Deliverance from the tragic or deliverance within the tragic?
- Chapter III. The "adamic" myth and the "eschatological" vision of history
- 1. The penitential motivation of the "adamic" myth
- 2. The structure of the myth: the "instant" of the fall
- 3. The "lapse of time" of the drama of temptation
- 4. Justification and eschatological
- Chapter IV. The myth of the exiled soul and salvation through knowledge
- 1. The archaic myth: "soul" and "body"
- 2. The final myth
- 3. Salvation and knowledge
- Chapter V. The cycle of the myths
- 1. From the statics to the dynamics of the myth
- 2. The reaffirmation of the tragic
- 3. The appropriation of the myth of chaos
- 4. The struggle between the adamic myth and the myth of exile
- Conclusion: the symbol gives rise to thought.