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Already more than sixty years Paul Ricoeur enriches the international philosophical patrimony with an astonishing number of highly technical books and enlightening reflections on actual problems and situations. To serve the community of researchers in philosophy I have already published two systematic bibliographies of (and on) Ricoeur in 1985 and 1995. Encouraged by friends and colleagues I present now another updated bibliography as exhaustive as possible (Peeters 2000) ... Read more

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Traces the decentered formulation of self at the heart of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy from his earliest works to his most recent.

Identifying Selfhood provides the first sustained treatment of the development of Paul Ricoeur's decentered formulation of selfhood from his earliest works to his most recent. For Henry Venema, Ricoeur's affirmation that consciousness is always rooted in the signs, symbols, and texts that precede the hermeneutical project of self-recovery and discovery provides the thread that links all of Ricoeur's philosophical inquiries together. However, as Venema argues, Ricoeur's hermeneutic is caught up in the semantics of identity to such an extent that selfhood is confused and often equated with the textuality of the reflective process and is never dealt with on the intimate level of the reflexive structure of selfhood in relation to otherness. In the end, Ricoeur's formulation of alterity identifies the other within the circle of the self-same. ... Read more

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Ce livre developpe la pensee ethique presente dans l'ensemble de l'oeuvre de Paul Ricoeur. Il montre comment la demarche hermeneutique de cet auteur permet d'articuler au plan de la vie morale la demarche rationnelle argumentative d'une part et la prise en compte des convictions ethiques formees dans l'apprentissage d'une tradition narrative d'autre part. Cette reflection offre egalement au plan religieux, des ressources pour penser la relation et la difference entre une ethique philosophique commune et une dimension poetique de l'existence, source de creativite et inspiree par l'hermeneutique des textes bibliques (Peeters 1996) ... Read more