Ricoeur and the Negation of Happiness

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Bibliographic Note
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1 Reading Ricœur on negation
	Starting to explore negation: The published work
	Hegel and negation
	Kant, Hegel and Sartre on negation
	The relevance of negation in the world
Chapter 2 The negation papers
	The linguistic turn
	Sartre as another
	Developing an archival commentary
Chapter 3 Heraclitus, Parmenides and Plato: Before the logic of negation
	Heraclitus’ poem
	Parmenides’ poem
	Interpreting Heraclitus and Parmenides
	Ricœur on Plato and negation
	Camouflaged traps
Chapter 4 Hegel’s dialectical dominance
	Ricœur on Hegel-partly via Kierkegaard
	Hegel on Kant
	Hegel’s negation and the unhappy consciousness
Chapter 5 Kant: Negation in a philosophy of limits
	The history of Kant’s ‘Negative Magnitudes’: patterns in the dust and static socks
	Early published Ricœur on Kant
	Ricœur’s lectures on Kant et la négation: ‘Negative Magnitudes’ and the Critique of Pure Reason
	The noumenon as limit vector
Chapter 6 Affirmative Negatives: Nietzsche, Sartre, Deleuze, Murdoch – and Plotinus
	Nietzsche, Deleuze and Ricœur
	Difference and repetition
	Murdoch on Sartre
	Plotinus’ mystical path to metaphor
	Dialectic, less and then more so – but not a jack of all trades
Chapter 7 Happiness – and you, what will you do?
	Theoretical negatives and positives
	Hegel’s negation: Jack of all trades
	Conclusions
Epilogue
Bibliography
Notes
Index