Meanings in Texts and Actions: Questioning Paul Ricoeur

by David E. Klemm, William Schweiker (Editor)

A collection of essays, stemming from the symposium on [title] held at the U. of Iowa, March-April 1990. Contributors from a variety of disciplines consider the ways in which they understand meanings in texts and actions from their different disciplinary viewpoints with a focus on philosopher Paul Ricoeur, who, along with Hans-Georg Gadamer, is largely responsible for the postwar emergence of a new hermeneutics. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1993