Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricœur was a French philosopher known for work at the intersection of phenomenology and hermeneutics. His influential writings on interpretation, narrative identity, memory, and ethics include Time and Narrative, Oneself as Another, and Memory, History, Forgetting.
Books
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1. Time And Narrative, Volume 3
This concluding volume examines how historical writing configures time, arguing that narrative both reveals and reshapes temporality by mediating between lived experience and cosmological chronology. It probes the referential claims of historiography in contrast to fiction, weighs explanation against understanding, and analyzes the roles of traces, archives, and representation in constructing the past. In dialogue with major thinkers in philosophy and history, it proposes calendar time as a bridge between subjective and objective temporalities and reflects on narrative’s power to address—without resolving—the aporias of time.
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2. Lectures On Imagination
A set of philosophical reflections that reconceives imagination as a productive power mediating between perception, memory, language, and action. Through inquiries into image, metaphor, and narrative, it shows how imaginative redescription opens new possibilities of meaning and reorients practical understanding. It also probes the social and ethical stakes of the imaginary—such as ideology, utopia, critique, and hope—while engaging classical and phenomenological perspectives to explain how images and stories shape subjectivity, interpretation, and the horizon of human action.
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