Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ricoeur's phenomenology of freedom as an answer to Sartre / James L. Marsh -- What makes us think? two views / Bernard P. Dauenhauer -- Philosophy and kerygma : Ricoeur as reader of the Bible / David E. Klemm -- On the hermeneutics of evil / Richard Kearney -- Paul Ricoeur and the prospects of a new humanism / William Schweiker -- Ricoeur's hermeneutical phenomenology of religion / Merold Westphal -- Love proceeds by poetic amplification / André LaCocque -- The challenge of the "such as it was" : Ricoeur's theory of narratives / Pol Vandevelde -- Ricoeur and Lyotard in postmodern dialogue : symbol and the sublime / Patrick L. Bourgeois -- Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics : from critique to poetics / Oliver Abel -- Ricoeur's critical theory / David M. Kaplan -- Justice and interpretation / David M. Rasmussen -- Rethinking Ricoeur : the unity of his work and the paradigm of translation / Domenico Jervolino -- Binding and loosing : promising and forgiving; amnesty and amnesia / Charles Reagan.

"In Reading Ricoeur, fourteen well-known scholars interpret, evaluate, and criticize the works of Paul Ricoeur, one of the twentieth century's most important and far-reaching philosophers. The contributors discuss Ricoeur's entire philosophical career: from his existentialist-phenomenology of the 1940s and '50s; his hermeneutics and critique of structuralism in the 1960s and '70s; his narrative and moral philosophy of the 1980s; his political and legal philosophy of the 1990s; his recent work on memory, forgiveness, and recognition; as well as his enduring interests in religious language and the problem of evil. The contributors not only explain the central concepts and structures of Ricoeur's philosophy, but they also bring him into dialogue with his contemporaries, including Sartre, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Rawls, and Lyotard. Reading Ricoeur demonstrates the central role of Paul Ricoeur in the development of twentieth-century philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.