This volume contains the intellectual autobiography of the phenomenologist Paul Ricoeur, critical essays by 25 leading philosophers and Ricoeur's replies to these criticisms. Ricoeur's writings cover a range of topics, from literary criticism and metaphysics, to linguistics and psychoanalysis.

Intellectual Autobiography of Paul Ricoeur; Ricoeur as Social Philosopher, Joseph J. Bien; From the Ego to the Self - a Philosophical Itinerary, Kathleen Blamey; The Limits of Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Existence, Patrick L. Bourgeois; Ricoeur on Atheism - a Critique, David Detmer; The Live Metaphor, Mary Gerhart; Ricoeur, Kant and the Permanence of Time, Terry F. Godlove Jr; Paul Ricoeur's Place in the Hermeneutic Tradition, Don Ihde; The Depth and Breadth of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy, Domenico Jervolino; Paul Ricoeur's Aesthetics - On How to Read a Metaphor, Eugene F. Kaelin; Ethics and Narrativity, Peter T. Kemp; The Idea of a Hermeneutical Ethics, Ted E. Klein Jr; A Good Rhetoric is Possible - Ricoeur's Philosophy of Language as a Phenomenology of Discourse in the Human Sciences, Richard L. Lanigan; Paul Ricoeur and the Conflict of Interpretations, Thelma Z. Lavine; Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of the Subject, Gary B. Madison; The Symbol Gave Rise to the Thought, David Pellauer; Philosophical Imagination - Paul Ricoeur as the Singer of Ruins, Michel Philibert; Words and Deeds - the Semantics of Action, Charles E. Reagan; Naive and Sentimental Hermeneutics - Keeping Language Open, Hans E. Rudnick; Freud, Philosophy and Interpretation, John E. Smith; On Ricoeur's Analysis of Time and Narration, Bernard Stevens; Ricoeur on Religious Language, David Steward; Act, Sign and Consciousness - Thinking Along with Ricoeur, Lik Kuen Tong; Metaphor, Hermeneutics and Situations, Dabney Townsend; Ricoeur and the Problem of Evil, Stephen Tyman; Paul Ricoeur and Literary Theory, Mario J. Valdes; Ricoeur's Replies to Critics.