Further thoughts on Ricoeur

Being ever-slothful, I cannot bring myself to develop fully what can be simply listed as bullet points. Nevermind the lack of clarity and greater possibility of being misunderstood, etc. I just want to jot down some themes/ideas of Ricoeur's that I have found valuable...

• interpretive arc; esp. appropriation of texts as integral to our mode of being
• redescriptive power of poetry and narrative; its subversive potential
  
• the word that comes to us from without
• mediation of Habermas and Gadamer; contextualized understanding and ideology critique
• self as externalized in text and action
• self-awareness thru interpretation of such externalized objects vs unmediated self-consciousness
• surplus of meaning; metaphor as contributing new cognitive content
• ethics as teleological yet somehow still ad hoc and non-systemic
  
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