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.

• Histoire et vérité, Paris:Seuil, 1955.

• La métaphore vive, Paris: Seuil, 1975, IA.
  • 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.

• 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.

• Sur la traduction, Paris: Bayard, 2004.
  • On Translation, trans. Richard Kearney, London and New York: Routledge, 2006, IA. [1] (English)

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

• 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

• David Pellauer, Ricoeur: A Guide for the Perplexed, Sage, 2008.
• Boyd Blundell, Paul Ricoeur between Theology and Philosophy: Detour and Return, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010.
• Eftichis Pirovolakis, Reading Derrida and Ricoeur: Improbable Encounters Between Deconstruction and Hermeneutics, 2010.
• 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/