The Narrative Path: The Later Works of Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

This book provides a perceptive analysis of the turn that led Paul his magisterial work Time and Ricoeur has for many years explored the intersections of diverse strands of European philosophy, but it is his recent work that has attracted the most discussion and engendered the most debate in Europe and America. Narrative the roots and meaning of that work.Two of the book's five essays reach back Ricoeur's earlier work clarify his themes: Richard Kearney concentrates on the role of imagination in hermeneuties, and Maria Villela Petit explores the development of Ricoeur's concept of history from History and Truth to Time and Narrative. Two essays analyze the significance of Ricoeur's reflections on metaphoric and narrative language: Serge Mellinger looks at the relationship between time and poetry from the point of view of Ricoeur's discussions of the connection between time and narrative, and T. Peter Kemp extends Ricoeur's analysis argue that narration is indispensable ethics. The book concludes with a reflection by himself on the linguistic, practical, and ethical dimensions of human beings, and with a bibliography of Ricoeur's work in English.T. Peter Kemp teaches in the Department of at the University of Copenhagen. Narrative Path is based on a special issue of the journal Philosophy and Social Criticism, edited by David Rasmussen, who is Professor of at Boston College.

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