Dr Alison Scott Baumann: 3 books

Book cover of Ricoeur and the Negation of Happiness
by Dr Alison Scott-Baumann
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013

Ricœur lectured and wrote for over twenty years on negation ('Do I understand something better if I know what it is not, and what is not-ness?') and never published his extensive writings on this subject. Ricœur concluded that there are multiple forms of negation; it can, for example, be the other...
Book cover of Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
by Dr Alison Scott-Baumann
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. In his enormous corpus of work he engaged with literature, history, historiography, politics, theology and ethics, while debating 'truth' and ethical solutions to life in the face of...
Book cover of Islamic Education in Britain

Islamic Education in Britain

New Pluralist Paradigms

by Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Dr Alison Scott-Baumann
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

The Western world often fears many aspects of Islam, without the knowledge to move forward. On the other hand, there are sustained and complex debates within Islam about how to live in the modern world with faith. Alison Scott-Baumann and Sariya Contractor-Cheruvallil here propose solutions to both...
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