Freedom and Nature: The Voluntary and the Involuntary. by Paul Ricoeur - 1966.

Evanston, IL Northwestern University Press, 1966. Paperback First Edition Thus, Sixth Printing [1987]. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing. Binding square and secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 498pp. Translated from the French by Erazim V. Kohak. Introduction by the Editor. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. University Press Paperback. This volume, the first part of Paul Ricoeur's "Philosophy of the Will", is an eidetics, carried out within carefully imposed phenomenological brackets. It seeks to deal with the essential structure of man's being in the world, and so it suspends the distorting dimensions of existence, the bondage of passion, and the vision of innocence, to which Ricoeur returns in his later writings. The result is a conception of man as an incarnate Cogito, which can make the polar unity of subject and object intelligible and provide a basic continuity for the various aspects of inquiry into man's being-in-the-world.