Books by Paul (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago) Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. Oneself as Another, the clearest account of his "philosophical ethics," substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals. Focusing on the concept of personal identity, Ricoeur develops a hermeneutics of the self that charts its epistemological path and ontological status.

How do human beings become human? This question lies behind the so-called human sciences. But these disciplines are scattered among many different departments and hold up a cracked mirror to humankind.

At the time of his death in 2005, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur was regarded as one of the great thinkers of his generation. This work continues and expands on the work Ricoeur began with his "little ethics" in "Oneself as Another" and "The Just". It is also suitable for understanding the development of Ricoeur's thought in his final years.

* Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) is one of the most important French philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. * This volume makes available some of his key writings on the theory of interpretation, or hermeneutics, written between 1972 and 2006.

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the outstanding French philosophers of the 20th century and his work is widely read in the English-speaking world. This unique volume comprises the lectures that Ricoeur gave on Plato and Aristotle at the University of Strasbourg in 1953-54.

In this new book Paul Ricoeur -- one of the greatest contemporary philosophers -- offers a personal reflection on his life and on the themes which have preoccupied him over the course of his career.

The essays in this collection grew out of a series of invited lectures given in France on the nature of justice and the law. They represent a reflection on the relationship of the juridical and the philosophical concept of right, situated between moral philosophy and politics.

* Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) is one of the outstanding French philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. * This volume makes available some of his key writings on Freud and psychoanalysis, written between 1966 and 1988. These writings are complementary to Ricoeur's classic book Freud and Philosophy.