Don’t miss “The Fragility of Politics: What Paul Ricoeur Can Teach Us About the French Election,” Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 7, 2017 (article link here). The author, Robert Zaretsky, is the history editor at LARB.

2017 SRS Boston Conference 11th ANNUAL SOCIETY FOR RICOEUR STUDIES CONFERENCE OCTOBER 5-7, 2017 BOSTON, MA, USA CALL FOR PAPERS The Society for Ricoeur Studies is pleased to announce the theme of the 2017 conference “Phronesis, Faith, and the Task of Envisioning a Social Global Imaginary”. The conference will be co-hosted by the Boston College …

The Fonds Ricoeur in Paris has joined forces with the Society for Ricoeur Studies to create a unique opportunity for Ricoeur scholars to come together and discuss the theme of ideology and utopia in Ricoeur.  Our aim is to provide a forum that encourages diversity in thinking and enables everyone to share their ideas and …

Society members Ming Yeung Cheung (Macau), Fernando Nascimento (Brazil; Society Director), and George Taylor (US) are undertaking a long-term project to develop an online repository of Ricoeur texts that will permit more sophisticated computer searches. To establish texts that can be read by these sophisticated searches, Ricoeur’s texts need to be converted by Optical Character …

Feminist Explorations of Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy, edited by Annemie Halsema and Fernanda Henriques, is the newest volume in the Ricoeur series published by Lexington Books. It offers an important array of essays exploring the potential interrelation between Ricoeur’s thought and feminist themes. Although Ricoeur did not himself address feminist arguments, the collection shows the many …