The symbolism of evil /

The symbolism of evil /

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Author / Creator:Ricœur, Paul.
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.
Subject:
Sin -- Christianity.
Good and evil.
Good and evil.
Sin -- Christianity.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1873100
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Notes:Translation of La symbolique du mal, the 2d pt. of Finitude et culpabilité, which was published as v. 2 of the author's Philosophie de la volonté.
Includes bibliographical references.
Other form:Online version: Ricœur, Paul. Symbolique de mal. English. Symbolism of evil. [1st ed.]. New York, Harper & Row [1967]
Online version: Ricœur, Paul. Symbolique de mal. English. Symbolism of evil. [1st ed.]. New York, Harper & Row [1967]
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.

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