Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education: The Just University

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The essays in Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education: The Just University discuss diverse ways that Paul Ricoeur’s work provides hopeful insight and necessary provocation that should inform the task and mission of the modern university in the changing landscape of Higher Education. This volume gathers interdisciplinary scholars seeking to reestablish the place of justice as the central function of higher education in the twenty-first century. The contributors represent diverse backgrounds, including teachers, scholars, and administrators from R1 institutions, seminary and divinity schools as well as undergraduate teaching colleges. This collection, edited by Daniel Boscaljon and Jeffrey F. Keuss, offers critical and practical visions for the renewal of higher education. The first part of the book provides an internal examination of the university system and details how Ricoeur’s thinking assists on pragmatics from syllabus design to final exams to daily teaching. The second portion of the book examines the Just University’s role as a social institution within the broader cultural world and looks at how Ricoeur’s description of values informs how the university works relative to religious belief, prisons, and rural poverty. Dedications Contents List of Figures and Tables Preface: Dreaming of the Just University in an Age of Crisis • Daniel Boscaljon and Jeffrey F. Keuss Introduction: Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of a Just University • Daniel Boscaljon and Jeffrey F. Keuss PART 1: THE JUST UNIVERSITY AS INSTRUCTIONAL SPACE 1 The Agon of the Summoned Self in Ricoeur’s Late Philosophy of Religion • Mark I. Wallace 2 Reading Ricoeur Together: Interpretive Work and Surplus Meaning in a Just Pedagogy • Charles A. Gillespie 3 Practical Formation: Teaching Critical Thinking via Ricoeur’s Hermeneutical Model • Laura Schmidt Roberts 4 Ricoeur and Transferable Skills • Glenn Whitehouse 5 Fallible Pedagogy: How to Balance Liberation and Evaluation with Compassion • Daniel Boscaljon 6 Oneself as Another and The Argonauts: An Attempt at Interpretive Justice • Richard A. Rosengarten 7 Embodied Pedagogy: Reflections on Becoming Oneself • Verna Marina Ehret PART 2: THE JUST UNIVERSITY AS A SOCIAL SPACE 8 The Literary Self: Nostalgia, Kenosis, and Interpretation toward a Renewed Vision and Possibility for the Liberal Arts • Jeffrey F. Keuss 9 Teaching and Learning in Just Institutions: A Ricoeurean Institutional Ethic of Higher Education • Michael Le Chevallier 10 Should Religion-Affiliated Institutions Be Accredited? Ricoeur and the Problem of Religious Inclusivity • Nathan Eric Dickman 11 Interpreting with and for Others: Institutional Research as Hermeneutical Reasoning • Kenneth A. Reynhout 12 Memory, History, and the Forgotten: Ricoeur and Access To Higher Education • Vero Rose Smith 13 Doing Time and Narrative: Teaching in (and out of) Prisons with Paul Ricoeur • Howard Pickett 14 Wounded Memory and a Pedagogy of Hope: Engaging Ricoeur within the Context of Conflicting Pasts • Robert Vosloo Index Contributors