Books by Ricoeur

• Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l’existence, written with Michel Dufrenne, Paris: Seuil, 1947.
• Gabriel Marcel and Karl Jaspers: Philosophie du mystère et philosophie du paradoxe, Paris: Temps Present, 1947.
• Philosophie de la volonté I. Le volontaire et l’involontaire, Paris: Seuil, 1950; translated as Freedom and Nature: The Voluntary and the Involuntary by Erazim Kohák, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1966.
• Histoire et Vérité, Paris: Seuil, 1955, second expanded edition 1964, third expanded edition 1967; translated as History and Truth by Charles A. Kelbley, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1965. (Scholar)
• Philosophie de la volonté. Finitude et CupibiltéI. L’homme faillible, translated as Fallible Man, by Charles A. Kelbley, New York: Fordham University Press, 1986.
• Philosophie de la volonté, Finitude et Culpabilité II. La symbolique du mal, translated as The Symbolism of Evil, by Emerson Buchanan, New York: Harper and Row, 1967.
• Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology, translated by Edward G. Ballard and Lester E. Embree, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1967.
• De l’interprétation. Essai sur Freud, Paris: Seuil, 1965; translated as Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation, by Denis Savage, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. (Scholar)
• Entretiens Paul Ricoeur — Gabriel Marcel, Paris: Aubier, 1968; translated as Gabriel Marcel, Tragic Wisdom and Beyond, by Stephen Jolin and Peter McCormick, Evanston: Northwester University Press, 1973. (Scholar)
• Le conflit des interprétations. Essais d’herméneutique, translated as The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in Hermeneutics, by Willis Domingo et al., edited by Don Ihde, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974.
• Political and Social Essays, edited by David Stewart and Joseph Bien, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1974.
• La métaphore vive, Paris: Seuil, 1975; translated as The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies in the Creation of Meaning in Language, by Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello, SJ., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978. (Scholar)
• Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning, Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1976.
• The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur: An Anthology of his Work, edited by Charles E. Reagan and David Stewart, Boston: Beacon Press, 1978.
• Essays on Biblical Interpretation, edited by Lewis S. Mudge, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.
• Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation, edited and translated by John B. Thompson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
• Temps et récit. Tome I, translated as Time and Narrative, by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
• Temps et récit. Tome II. La configuration dans le récit de la fiction, translated as Time and Narrative (Volume 2), by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
• Temps et récit. Tome III. Le temps raconté, Translated as Time and Narrative (Volume 3), by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
• Lectures on Ideology and Utopia, edited by George H. Taylor, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981; translated as L’idéologie et l’utopie, by Myriam Revault d’Allones and Joël Roman, Paris: Seuil, 1997.
• Du texte à l’action. Essais d’herméneutique, II, Paris: Seuil, 1986; translated as From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics II, by Kathleen Blamey and John B. Thompson, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1991. (Scholar)
• À l’École de la phénoménologie, Paris: Vrin, 1986.
• Soi-même comme un autre, Paris: Seuil, 1990; translated as Oneself as Another, by Kathleen Blamey, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. (Scholar)
• A Ricoeur Reader: Reflection and Imagination, edited by Mario J. Valdes, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
• Lectures I: Autour du politique, Paris: Seuil, 1991.
• Lectures II : La Contrée des philosophes, Paris: Seuil, 1992.
• Lectures III : Aux Frontières de la philosophie, Paris: Seuil, 1994.
• Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination, edited by Mark I. Wallace, translated by David Pellauer, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
• La critique et la conviction. Entretien avec François Azouvi et Marc de Launay, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1995; translated as Critique and Conviction, by Kathleen Blamey, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. (Scholar)
• Réflexion faite. Autobiographie intellectuelle, Paris: Éditions Esprit, 1995; translated as “Intellectual Autobiography” by Kathleen Blamey, in The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Lewis Edwin Hahn (ed.), Chicago: Open Court, 1995, 1–53. (Scholar)
• Le Juste, Paris: Éditions Esprit, 1995; translated as The Just, by David Pellauer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. (Scholar)
• Ce qui nous faith penser. La nature et la règle, with Jean-Pierre Changeux, Paris: Odile Jacob, 1998; translated as What Makes Us Think? A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain, by M. B. DeBevoise. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. (Scholar)
• Penser la Bible, with André LaCocque, Paris: Seuil, 1998; translated as Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies, by David Pellauer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. (Scholar)
• La mémoire, l’histoire, l’oubli, Paris: Seuil, 2000; translated as Memory, History, Forgetting by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• Le Juste 2, Paris: Éditions Esprit, 2001; translated as Reflections on the Just, by David Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. (Scholar)
• Sur la traduction, Paris: Bayard, 2004; translated as On Translation, by Eileen Brennan. New York: Routledge, 2006. (Scholar)
• Parcours de la reconnaissance. Trois études, translated as The Course of Recognition, by David Pellauer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
• Vivant jusqu’à la mort. Suivi de Fragments, edited by Catherine Goldenstein, translated as Living Up To Death, by David Pellauer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. (Scholar)
• Écrits et conférences 1: Autour de la psychanalyse, edited by Catherine Goldenstein, translated as On Psychoanalysis, by David Pellauer, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012.
• Écrits et conférences 2: Herméneutique, translated as Hermeneutics, by David Pellauer, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.
• Écrits et conférences 3: Anthropologie Philosophique, translated as Philosophical Anthropology, by David Pellauer, Cambridge: Polity, 2016.
• Écrits et conférences 4: Politique, Économie et Société, translated as Politics, Economy, and Society, by Kathleen Blamey. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021.
• Écrits et conférences 5: La Religion pour Penser, Paris: Seuil, 2021.
• Être, essence et substance chez Platon et Aristote. Cours professé à l’ de Strasbourg en 1953–1954, translated as Being, Essence and Substance in Plato and Aristotle, by David Pellauer and John Starkey, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. (Scholar)
• Ricoeur and Castoriadis in Discussion: On Human Creation, Historical Novelty, and the Social Imaginary, edited by Suzi Adams, New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.
• Méthode réflexive appliquée au problème de Dieu chez Lachelier et Lagneau, Paris: Cerf, 2017.
• Plaidoyer pour l’utopie ecclésiale, Geneva: Labor et Fides, 2017.
• Philosophie, Éthique et Politique: Entretiens et dilalogues, translated as Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics, by Kathleen Blamey. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020.
• Lectures on Imagination, George H. Taylor, Robert D. Sweeney, Jean-Luc Amalric, and Patrick F. Crosby (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004; translated as L’Imagination: Cours à l’Université de Chicago (1975), Jean-Luc Amalric (trans.), Paris: Seuil, 2024. (Scholar)

Selected Secondary Literature

• Amalric, Jean-Luc, 2013, Paul Ricoeur, l’imagination vive : Une genèse de la philosophie ricoeurienne de l’imagination, Paris: Hermann. (Scholar)
• Arel Stephanie N. and Dan R. Stiver, 2019, Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century: The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur’s Dialectical Concept, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Arthos, John, 2019. Hermeneutics after Ricoeur, London: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scholar)
• Blundell, Boyd, 2010, Paul Ricoeur between Theology and Philosophy: Detour and Return, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Clark S. H., 1990, Paul Ricoeur, London and New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Cohen, Richard A., and James L. Marsh (eds.), 2002, Ricoeur as Another, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Dauenhauer, Bernard P., 1998, Paul Ricoeur: The Promise and Risk of Politics, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Davidson, Scott (ed.) , 2010, Ricoeur Across the Disciplines, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2018, A Companion to Ricoeur’s Freedom and Nature, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2019, A Companion to Ricoeur’s Fallible Man, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2020, A Companion to Ricoeur’s The Symbolism of Evil, New York: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• de Leeuw, Marc, 2022. Paul Ricoeur’s Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology: Vulnerability, Capability, Justice, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• de Leeuw, Marc, George H. Taylor, and Eileen Brennan (eds.), 2021. Reading Ricoeur Through Law, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Deweer, Dries, 2017, Ricoeur’s Personalist Republicanism: On Personhood and Citizenship, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Dierckxsens, Geoffrey, 2018, Paul Ricoeur’s Moral Anthropology: Singularity, Responsibility, and Justice, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Dosse, François, 2008, Paul Ricoeur: Les sens d’une vie (1913–2005), édition revue et augmentée. Paris: La Decouverte. (Scholar)
• Dosse, François, 2012, Paul Ricoeur: Un philosophe dans son siècle, Paris: Armand Colin. (Scholar)
• Dufy, Maria, 2009, Paul Ricoeurs Pedagog of Pardon: A Narrative Theory of Memory and Forgetting, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• Evans, Jeanne, 1995, Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the Imagination, New York: Peter Lang. (Scholar)
• Frey, Daniel, 2021, La Religion dans la Philosophie de Paul Ricoeur, Paris: Hermann. (Scholar)
• Gregor, Brian, 2019, Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Religion: Rebirth of the Capable Self, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Greisch, Jean, 2001, Paul Ricoeur : L’itinérance du sens, Paris: Millon. (Scholar)
• Gschwandtner, Christina M., 2021, Reading Religious Ritual with Ricoeur: Between Fragility and Hope, New York: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• –––, 2024, Paul Ricoeur, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and the Question of Revelation, New York: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Gutting, Gary, 2001, French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Hahn, Lewis E. (ed.), 1995, The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Chicago and La Salle: Open Court. (Scholar)
• Hall, W. David, 2007, Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative: The Creative Tension Between Love and Justice, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Halsema, Anneemie and Fernanda Henriques (eds.), 2016, Feminist Explorations of Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy, New York: Lexington Press. (Scholar)
• Helenius, Timo, 2016, Ricoeur, Culture, and Recognition: A Hermeneutic of Cultural Subjectivity, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Ihde, Don, 1971, Hermeneutic Phenomenology: The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Evanston: Northwestern University Press. (Scholar)
• Jervolino, D., 1990, The Cogito and Hermeneutics: The Question of the Subject in Ricoeur, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
• Johnson, Greg S. and Dan R. Stiver (eds.), 2013 Paul Ricoeur and the Task of Political Philosophy, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Joy, Morny (ed.), 1997, Paul Ricoeur and Narrative, Calgary: University of Calgary Press. (Scholar)
• Kaplan, David, 2003, Ricoeur’s Critical Theory, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2008, Reading Ricoeur, Albany State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Kenzo, Mabilala Justin-Robert, 2009, Dialectic of Sedimentation and Innovation: Paul Ricoeur on Creativity after the Subject, Lausanne: Peter Lang. (Scholar)
• Kearney, Richard (ed.), 1996, Paul Ricoeur: The Hermeneutics of Action, London: Sage. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, On Paul Ricoeur: The Owl of Minerva, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. (Scholar)
• Kemp, T. P., and D. Rasmussen (eds.), 1989, The Narrative Path: The Later Works of Paul Ricoeur, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Klemm, David, 1983, The Hermeneutical Theory of Paul Ricoeur: A Constructive Analysis, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. (Scholar)
• Klemm, David E., and William Schweiker (eds.), 1993, Meaning in Texts and Action: Questioning Paul Ricoeur, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. (Scholar)
• Mann, Molly Harkirat, 2012, Ricoeur, Rawls, and Capability Justice, London and New York: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• McCarthy, Joan, 2007, Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books. (Scholar)
• Michel, Johann, 2015, Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists: Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Castoriadis, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield (Scholar)
• Montiel, Pierre-Olivier, 2013, Ricoeur politique, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. (Scholar)
• Mootz III, Francis J. and George Taylor (eds.), 2011, Gadamer and Ricoeur: Critical Horizons for Contemporary Hermeneutics, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• Pellauer, David, 2007, Ricoeur: A Guide for the Perplexed, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• Pirovolakis, Eftichis, 2010, Reading Derrida and Ricoeur: Improbable Encounters Between Deconstruction and Hermeneutics, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Reagan, Charles E., 1996, Paul Ricoeur: His Life and Work, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1979, Studies in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Athens: Ohio University Press. (Scholar)
• Reijers, Wessel, Alberto Romele, and Mark Coeckelbergh (eds.), 2021. Interpreting Technology: Ricoeur on Questions Concerning Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littefield. (Scholar)
• Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu, 2006, Paul Ricoeur: Tradition and Innovation in Rhetorical Theory, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Simms, Karl, 2003, Paul Ricoeur, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Savage, Roger (ed.), 2015, Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis, and Critique, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2020, Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Scott-Baumann, Alison, 2009, Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• Simms, Karl, 2007, Ricoeur and Lacan, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• Shenge, Adrien Lentiampa, S.J., 2009, Paul Ricoeur : La justice selon l’espérance, Brussels: Lessius. (Scholar)
• Stiver Dan R., 2001, Theology After Ricoeur: New Directions in Hermeneutical Theology, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. (Scholar)
• Thompson, John B., 1981, Critical Hermeneutics: A Study in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur and Jürgen Habermas, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Treanor, Brian and Henry Isaac Venema (eds.), 2010, A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur, New York: Fordham University Press. (Scholar)
• Vansina, F. D., 2008, Paul Ricoeur: Bibliography 1935–2008, Leuven/Paris: Peeters. (Scholar)
• Venema, Henry Isaac, 2000, Identifying Selfhood: Imagination, Narrative, and Hermeneutics in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Wall, John, 2005, Moral Creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Wall, John, William Schweiker, and W. David Hall (eds.), 2002, Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought, New York and London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Wiercinski, Andrzej (ed.), 2003, Between Suspicion and Sympathy: Paul Ricoeur’s Unstable Equilibrium, Toronto: Hermeneutic Press. (Scholar)
• Wong, Michael T., 2019. Ricoeur andthe Third Discourse of the Person: From Philosophy and Neuroscience to Psychiatry and Theology, New York: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Wood, David (ed.), 1991, On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)