PAUL RICOEUR (1913-2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.  As such, his thought is situated within the same tradition as other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer.  In 2000 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for having "revolutionized the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology, expanding the study of textual interpretation to include the broad yet concrete domains of mythology, biblical exegesis, psychoanalysis, theory of metaphor, and narrative theory."


All the following books are in PDF format:

* A KEY TO EDMUND HUSSERL'S IDEAS I (Marquette University Press, 1996).  Translated by Bond Harris and Jacqueline Bouchard Spurlock.  Edited, translation revised, and with an Introduction by Pol Vandevelde.

* THE COURSE OF RECOGNITION (Harvard University Press, 2005).  Translated by David Pellauer.

* CRITIQUE AND CONVICTION: Conversations with Francois Azouvi and Marc de Launay (Columbia University Press, 1998).  Translated by Kathleen Blamey.
 
* FREEDOM AND NATURE: The Voluntary and the Involuntary (Northwestern University Press, 1966).  Translated by Erazim V. Kohak.

* FREUD AND PHILOSOPHY: An Essay on Interpretation (Yale University Press, 1970).  Translated by Denis Savage.

* THE JUST (University of Chicago Press, 2000).  Translated by David Pellauer.

* LECTURES ON IDEOLOGY AND UTOPIA (Columbia University Press, 1986).  Edited by George H. Taylor.

* LIVING UP TO DEATH (University of Chicago Press, 2009).  Translated by David Pellauer.

* MEMORY, HISTORY, FORGETTING (University of Chicago Press, 2004).  Translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer.

* ONESELF AS ANOTHER (University of Chicago Press, 1992).  Translated by Kathleen Blamey.

* THE RULE OF METAPHOR: The Creation of Meaning in Language (Routledge, 1978).  Translated by Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello, SJ.

* TIME AND NARRATIVE, 3 volumes (University of Chicago Press, 1985-88).  Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer (Vols. 1 & 2), Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer (Vol. 3).