Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricœur (27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.

Works

(in French unless noted)

• with Mikel Dufrenne, Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l'existence, Paris: Seuil, 1947.

• Philosophie de la volonte I: Le volontaire et l'involontaire, Paris: Aubier, 1950.
  • Freedom and Nature. The Voluntary andthe Involuntary, trans. E. Kohak, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1966. (English)

• Histoire et vérité, Paris: Seuil, 1955.

• De l'interpretation. Essai sur Freud, Paris: Seuil, 1965, PDF.
  • Freud and Philosophy. Essay on Interpretation, trans. D. Savage, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. (English)

• Le conflit des interpretations. Essais d'hermeneutique, vol. 1, Paris: Seuil, 1969.
  • The Conflict of Interpretations. Essays in Hermeneutics, trans. and ed. Don Ihde, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974. (English)

• La métaphore vive, Paris: Seuil, 1975, PDF, IA, ARG.
  • A metáfora viva, trans. Dion Davi Macedo, Sao Paolo: Loyola, 2000, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • The Rule of Metaphor. The creation of meaning in language, trans. Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello, SJ, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1977; Uk: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978; Routledge Classics 2003; 2004, IA.

• Temps et recit, vol. 1, Paris: Seuil, 1983.

• Temps et recit, vol. 2: La configuration dans le recit de fiction, 1984.

• Temps et recit, vol. 3: Le temps raconte, 1985.
  • Time and Narrative, trans. K. McLaughlin and D. Pellauer, Chicago: University Press of Chicago, 1984. (English)

• Du texte et de l'action. Essais d'hermeneutique II, Paris: Seuil, 1986, IA,ARG.
  • From Text to Action, trans. K. Blarney and J. Thompson, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1991. (English)

• A l'ecole de la phenomenologie, Paris: Vrin, 1986, 2004, DJV, ARG.

• Le mal. Un défi à la philosophie et à la théologie, Paris: Labor & Fides, 1986; 2004.
  • El mal: un desafío a la filosofía y a la teología, Amorrortu - ESP, 2006, PDF. (Spanish)
  • Răul. O sfidare a filozofiei şi a teologiei, trans. Bogdan Ghiu, intro Pierre Gisel, Bucharest: ART, 2008, 64 pp, PDF, IA, ARG. (Romanian)

• Lectures I: Autour du politique, Paris: Seuil, 1991.

• Lectures II: La Contrée des philosophes, Paris: Seuil, 1992.

• Lectures III: Aux frontières de la philosophie, Paris: Seuil, 1994.

• Réflexion faite : Autobiographie intellectuelle, Paris: Esprit, 1995.
  • Autobiografía intelectual, trans. Patricia Willson, Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión, 1997, PDF, IA, ARG. (Spanish)

• A key to Husserl's Ideas I, trans. and preface Bond Harris & Jacqueline Bouchard Spurlock; trans. revised, and intro Pol Vandevelde, Marquette University Press, 1996, PDF, IA, ARG. This introduction and running commentary was originally published as part of Ricoeur's French translation of the German work Ideas I by E. Husserl. (English)

• Lecture d’« Autrement qu’être ou Au-delà de l’essence » d’Emmanuel Levinas, Paris: PUF, 1997, PDF.

• La mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli, Paris: Le Seuil, 2000, 676 p. Review
  • A memória, a história, o esquecimento, trans. Alain François [et al.], Sao Paulo: Unicamp, 2007, PDF. (Portuguese)

• Sur la traduction, Paris: Bayard, 2004.
  • Despre traducere, trans. and intro Magda Jeanrenaud, Iaşi: Polirom, 2005, 168 pp. (Romanian)
  • On Translation, trans. Richard Kearney, London and New York: Routledge, 2006, IA. [1] (English)

• Parcours de la reconnaissance. Trois études, Paris: Stock, 2004, 396 pp. Review
  • Percorsi del riconoscimento, trans. Fabio Polidori, Milan: Raffaello Cortina editore, 2005, IA. (Italian)

• Amour et justice, Paris: Points, 2008. Excerpts
  • Iubire şi justiţie, trans. Mădălin Roşioru, Bucharest: Art, 2009. Excerpts (Romanian)

• Autour de la Psychanalyse. Écrits et conférences I, Paris: Seuil, 2008.

• Herméneutique. Écrits et conférences II, Paris: Seuil, 2010.

• Être, essense et substance chez Platon et Aristote: cours professé à l'université de Strasbourg en 1953–1954, Paris: Seuil, 2011.

Literature

• Bernard Stevens, L'apprentissage des signes. Lecture de Paul Ricoeur, The Hague: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.

• David Wood (ed.), On Ricoeur. Narrative and Interpretation, London/New York: Routledge, 1991. (English)

• David Pellauer, Ricoeur: A Guide for the Perplexed, Sage, 2008. (English)

• Boyd Blundell, Paul Ricoeur between Theology and Philosophy: Detour and Return, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010. (English)

• Eftichis Pirovolakis, Reading Derrida and Ricoeur: Improbable Encounters Between Deconstruction and Hermeneutics, 2010. (English)

• Henry Venema and Brian Treanor (eds.), A passion for the possible: thinking with Paul Ricoeur, New York: Fordham University Press, 2010, PDF.

• James Carter, Ricoeur on Moral Religion, Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2014. (English)

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ric%C5%93ur
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ricoeur/