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Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization

By: Bengt Kristensson Uggla

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Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization

By: Bengt Kristensson Uggla

Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and Globalization explores the philosophical resources provided by Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics in dealing with the challenges of a world framed by globalization. Bengt Kristensson Uggla's reflections start from an understanding of globalization as an 'age of hermeneutics', linking the seldom related problematic of globalization with hermeneutics through Ricoeur's concept of interpretation. The book proceeds to embrace lifelong learning as the emerging new life script of the globalized knowledge economy, the post-national 'memory wars' generated by the celebration of national anniversaries, and the need for orientation in a post-modern world order. The author argues that Ricoeur's hermeneutics provide intellectual resources of extraordinary importance in coping with some of the most important challenges in the contemporary world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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144113283X

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9781441132833

Becoming Human Again

The Theological Life of Gustaf Wingren

By: Bengt Kristensson Uggla

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Becoming Human Again

The Theological Life of Gustaf Wingren

By: Bengt Kristensson Uggla

One of the most influential Swedish theologians of the twentieth century, Gustaf Wingren's career spanned more than forty years of upheaval both in his field and around the globe. Provocative and challenging, Wingren revelled in a good argument and this attitude set the tone for much of his scholarship. A Swedish Lutheran, he made his name through his research into the theology of Martin Luther, breaking away from both traditional interpretations of Luther and the theology of his famous teachers, Karl Barth and Anders Nygren, before shifting his focus onto systematic theology. In a fresh take, Bengt Kristensson Uggla delves into the influence of Wingren's second wife, Greta Hofsten, on the direction of his theology. Hofsten, a left-wing political activist who was searching for a new language of faith, wove Wingren's work together with her own political philosophy to create an unusual kind of Christian socialism. Her thinking had a profound effect on Wingren, causing him to recontextualise his older work entirely. In Becoming Human Again, Uggla examines how Wingren's combative nature often served him well as a theologian, driving him to engage with innovations in the field and re-examine his older views.

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James Clarke & Company

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022790561X

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9780227905616

Science as a Quest for Truth

The Interpretation Lab

By: Bengt Kristensson Uggla

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Science as a Quest for Truth

The Interpretation Lab

By: Bengt Kristensson Uggla

This book presents a unified theory of science by challenging some of the lingering myths and anachronisms associated with our understanding of what it means to be scientific. The book presents a new science narrative focused on the dialectics of discovering/inventing new worlds in an age of hermeneutics, and as an alternative to the prevailing view of the history of science as, largely, a confrontation between science and religion. It argues that the development of modern science is, in a complex way, intertwined with the history of the university, a knowledge institution that throughout the centuries has repeatedly managed to reinvent itself—so successfully, indeed, that it has paradoxically led to a fundamental crisis of identity today. The book suggests that, in order to recognize science as a quest for truth in a globalizing world of cognitive horizontalization, we need to transcend the false alternatives of objectivistic certitude (possessing “the Truth”) and relativistic resignation (“post-truth”) by means of a new focus on collegial practices.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527534464

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9781527534469

Becoming Human Again

The Theological Life of Gustaf Wingren

By: Bengt Kristensson Uggla

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The Theological Life of Gustaf Wingren

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Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization

Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization

Becoming Human Again

Becoming Human Again

Science as a Quest for Truth

Science as a Quest for Truth

Becoming Human Again

Becoming Human Again

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