Paul Ricoeur Honoring and Continuing the Work

This collection of essays is dedicated to the prolific career of Paul Ricœur. In his lifetime, Ricœur made significant contributions to many fields, such as theology, aesthetics, narratology, linguistics, and of course, philosophy. Within philosophy alone, he engaged many currents of thoughts, always providing careful and faithful analyses of philosophers while adding his own unique perspectives. Many essays in this anthology revisit Ricœur's own works, carefully placing him in his philosophical context, while providing new interpretations of questions that mattered to Ricœur, such as imagination, forgiveness, justice, and memory. Other essays, honoring Ricœur's own approach, bring him to dialogue with new questions, such as globalization, technology, and national memorials.

Farhang Erfani is assistant professor of philosophy at American University and research associate at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. He is the author of Aesthetics of Autonomy: Ricoeur and Sartre on Emancipation, Authenticity, and Selfhood and the forthcoming Iranian Cinema and Philosophy: Shooting Truth.