Description: Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body's explorations into the ethical, social, cultural, and affective dimensions of our corporeal existence draw on Paul Ricoeur's reflection on the lived body. Starting with the fact that one's own body is irreducible to an object, these essays crit...
Brief description: Scott Davidson is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oklahoma City University, USA. He is the translator of Michel Henry's works: Material Phenomenology (2008), Seeing the Invisible (2009), and Barbarism (2012).
Review Quotes: "This admirable volume provides a much needed overview of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy of the body. The first collection on this theme, it contains both important new scholarship and innovative essays that develop philosophical proposals drawing from Ricoeur's insights into our bodily existence. Roger W. H. Savage and the talented writers who contributed to this volume have produced a work that is certain to become essential reading for anyone intrigued by the extraordinary potential of this underresearched area of Ricoeur's work." --Eileen Brennan, Dublin City University