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Love and justice’s dialectical relationship: Ricoeur’s contribution on the relationship between care and justice within care ethics
The relationship between love/care and justice was one of the key tensions from which care ethics originated; to this very day it is subject of...
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Negotiating Indigenous Metaphysics as Educational Philosophy in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, the history of the use of modern philosophical categories in education is short. This is because the country’s modern education itself...
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Beyond Poststructuralism: The Critical Hermeneutical Philosophy of Paul Ricœur
This chapter presents Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutical philosophy as a philosophical basis for business ethics and philosophy of management. Ricœur...
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Narrative Hermeneutics and Dialogical Subjectivity
One of the most important features of the narrative turn, in both theoretical discourse and fiction, is a new way of emphasizing the temporal and...
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Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
This book takes as its starting point the idea that not only does the present shape how we think about the past, but that the past is not entirely...
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Greek Heroes, Jewish Nomads, and Hindu Pilgrims: Ulysses, Abraham and Uddhava at the Cross-Cultural-Roads
This chapter engages in a bit of cross-cultural dialogue pertaining to the putatively imperious nature of the transcendental subject. It specifically...
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Ricoeur in Search of a Philosophy of the ‘Heart’
The focus of reflection in Paul Ricoeur’s Fallible Man (1986) is human fragility and fallibility understood as ‘the constitutional weakness that...
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Blending the Mythical and Religious into Political
We have discussed the religiosity built into being an American, and how religion and political or civil religion interact in the society and...
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Toward a New Hermeneutic of Covenant
The first three chapters analyzed three different paradigms of the Ethiopian worldview and briefly indicated their strengths and weaknesses. In the...
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Debating Phenomenological Methods
Phenomenological philosophers have been “extraordinarily diverse in their interests, in their interpretation of the central issues of phenomenology,...
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Constructing the Good Youth Citizen: A History of the Present
The historicized context within which today’s youth activists come to their practices consists of almost impossibly complex layers of personal and...
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Introduction: “Citizen Youth” in the Twenty-first Century
On April 21, 2001, the front page of the Globe and Mail, a Canadian national daily newspaper, was dominated by a graphic color photograph of a young...
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Twilight Splendour (Phenomenological Reflections on Europe)
E. Husserl represents a key reference when addressing the need for a serious and exhaustive reflection on the notion of Europe, in an attempt to...
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Clash of Oralities and Textualities: the Colonization of the Communicative Space in Sub-Saharan Africa
Before the arrival of colonialism, most societies in sub-Saharan Africa were oral communities whose languages were not written. This is interesting...
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Stories: Epic, Tragic, Comic and Romantic
This chapter is the first step in answering the primary research question: What does it mean to managers to be implementing government-driven reforms...
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Educational Practice and Development of Human Capabilities
When you enrol as a student you are assigned a ‘place’ in education. This assignment will gradually imply an assessment of you as a human being. We...
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Hermeneutic Philosophy and Human Experience: An Intercultural Perspective o f Worldviews and Life World in the Mapuche Culture
We are mainly concerned with develo** the categories of worldviews and life world in the framework of the a priori historic cultural encounter....
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Narrating the Trauma
At first sight, George Perec’s W ou le souvenir d’enfance (1975) is a hybrid book of fiction and nonfiction, where every odd-numbered chapter is...
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“And the Women Wailed in Answer”: The Lament Tradition
Women shriek. They tear their hair and clothing, scratch at their faces and beat their chests. They sway hypnotically and sometimes dance wildly, as...