Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Re-Encountering Ricoeur

1. John Arthos – Ricoeur and the Political

2. Roger W. H. Savage – Surplus Value, Superabundance of Meaning: Ideology, the Political Paradox, and the Structure of Action

3. Dan R. Stiver – Renewing the “Period of Effervescence”: Utopia as Ideology Critique

Part II: Ricoeur in Dialogue

4. Recep Alpyagil – Metaphor and Imagination: A Comparative Study of Ricoeur and Ibn ‘Arabi through “Seeing As”

5. Linda Lee Cox – ‘Holding Open a Place for Possibility’: Paul Ricoeur, Fredric Jameson, and the Language of Utopia

Part III: Ricoeur and Embodied Social Critique

6. Nel van den Haak – Social Imagination, Materiality, and Political Discourse Introduction

7. Stephanie Arel – Embodied Extremist Rhetoric: The Circulation of Power in Ideology and Utopia

Part IV: Expanding Ricoeur

8. Annalisa Caputo – Rethinking Migratory Phenomena: Between Critique of Ideology and Utopia of Hospitality

9. Greg S. Johnson – Real Utopian Politics

10. George H. Taylor – Why Ideology and Utopia Today?

About the Contributors

About the Author

Stephanie N. Arel is Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the September 11 Memorial and Museum and a visiting researcher at New York University.

Dan R. Stiver is the Cook-Derrick Professor of Theology in the Logsdon School of Theology of Hardin-Simmons University.