Music, unlike ordinary language, can ‘make sense’ or have ‘meaning’ even when it does not refer to anything in particular (other than music). Although we often think of music as a kind of language, on the whole we do not regard it as a ‘translatable’ language, the inherent meaning of which could be sufficiently expressed in a different form. If you strip away the ornaments and metaphors of a po...

Introduction In his early article on the philosophy of hope, Paul Ricoeur admiringly spoke of Moltmann’s eschatological theology: “For my part I have been very much taken with – I should say, won over by – the eschatological interpretation that Jurgen Moltmann gives to the Christian kerygma in his work The Theology of Hope.” It is quite uncommon for a contemporary European philosopher to so exp...

Michele Kueter Petersen. "A Hermeneutics of Contemplative Silence: Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart Meaning". An article from journal Philosophy in Review (Volume 42, Number 4, November 2022, pp. 1-48), on Érudit.