Paul Ricoeur

No contemporary thinker has participated in more intellectual debates in the post-war period than Paul Ricoeur. His writings evolved from an initial concern with existentialism and phenomenology, through structuralism and psychoanalysis and the work he undertook within the hermenuetic tradition, to his recent studies in metaphor and narrative. This introduction is the first study to survey the entire range of Ricoeur's work and, exploiting the obvious thematic parallels, situates it within the context of post-structuralism. It includes the first discussion of Ricoueur'sTime and Narrative, a work likely to prove the most significant contribution to the theory of narrative since early structuralism.Clark, Steven H. is the author of 'Paul Ricoeur' with ISBN 9780415058407 and ISBN 0415058406.