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Politics, Economy, and Society
Writings and Lectures, Volume 4
Paul Ricoeur
Edited and with an Introduction by Pierre-Olivier Monteil
Translated by Kathleen Blamey
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Originally published in French as Politique, économie et société. Écrits et conférences, 4 © Editions du Seuil, 2019
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Editor’s Introduction
Paul Ricoeur’s work is rarely viewed through the lens of political philosophy. And yet the question of power and the desire-to-live-together in the polis is his constant preoccupation and the substance of numerous writings.1 However, none of these themes are presented as part of an overall system in which they are a part. Lectures 1. Autour du politique is composed of studies coming from a wide range of periods and treating apparently unrelated topics.2 Ideology and Utopia deals with the political from the standpoint of the social imagination, but the anthropological and epistemological reflections on this topic do not extend to the institutional forms of the political.3 This last aspect is indirectly approached in two other collections, notably through a reflection on the law.4 Finally, the most fully developed text on the political as such is to be found in the series of three studies on ethics, morality, and practical wisdom in Oneself as Another.5
Generally speaking, Ricoeur assigned a limited scope to each of his writings; he himself characterizes his thinking as a style that privileges fragmentation. This is singularly the case in political matters, where he seems to have been unconcerned about confining to oblivion so many studies never to be republished. The selection of the texts collected here has been guided by the concern to repair this oversight by restoring Ricoeur’s political project in its coherence and in the diversity
