"To explain more is to understand better." This is the mantra by
which French philosopher Paul Ricoeur lived and worked,
establishing himself as one of the twentieth century's most lucid
and broad-ranging critical thinkers. A prisoner of war at 27,
Ricoeur was also Dean of Paris X Nanterre during the student
disturbances of 1968. In later years he became an outspoken
champion of social justice. In work as in life, Ricoeur was
committed to the challenges of conflict and the prospect of
authentic resolution. Deeply indebted to phenomenology and the
hermeneutical tradition of Heidegger and Gadamer, Ricoeur was also
an advocate of structural linguistics, of psychoanalysis, and a
rare conversant with the Anglo-American analytic tradition. This
volume explores how literature and the conflicts of
literary-theoretical debate inform Ricoeur's theory of imagination
and understanding, and how Ricoeur's unique mode of literary
reflection resolves the conflicts of literature's theoretical
heyday, presaging a new direction for literary studies.
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