Ricoeur’s Critical Hermeneutics and the Psychotherapeutic Model of Critical Theory

Authors

Francis J. Mootz III, University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

This paper seeks to extend Ricoeur’s acclaimed mediation of the Gadamer-Habermas debate. Freud’s psychoanalytic practice was an important touchstone for the debate, and Ricoeur’s reading of Freud provides a key to his critical intervention in the debate. The emerging postmodern account of psychotherapeutic practice provides a model of the critical hermeneutics that Ricoeur championed. Bringing Ricoeur’s insights to bear on this model, we can advance the questioning spurred by the Gadamer-Habermas debate without pretending to bring closure to the unending conversation of thinking.

Publication Citation

Mootz III, Francis Joseph, Ricoeur's Critical Hermeneutics and the Psychotherapeutic Model of Critical Theory (December 15, 2008)

Recommended Citation

Mootz, Francis J. III, "Ricoeur’s Critical Hermeneutics and the Psychotherapeutic Model of Critical Theory" (2006). Scholarly Works. 62.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/62