Critique and Conviction

In this new book Paul Ricoeur – one of the greatest contemporary philosophers – offers a personal reflection on his life and on the themes which have preoccupied him over the course of his career. <p>Ranging across topics in ethics and metaphysics, psychoanalysis and hermeneutics, history, politics and religion, <i>Critique and Conviction</i> provides unique insight into the ideas and sources of influence which have shaped Ricoeur’s philosophical approach and defined his core concerns. Ricoeur also discusses in detail a number of topics about which he has not written extensively before, including questions of aesthetics and current affairs.</p> <p>This remarkable testimony by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century will be of great interest to students of philosophy, theology, literary theory and social and political theory.</p>