A review of Ricoeur's On Translation (Thinking in Action)
French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, who died in 2005 at the age of 92, was both the John Dewey and the Aristotle of post-World War II philosophy. Like Dewey, Ricoeur was a sweet-tempered and optimistic thinker who wrote important and original works well into his eighties. Like Aristotle, he sought to embrace the world as it is rather than chase after a unifying Truth or Being hiding elsewhere. Ricoeur — whose major works include Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation(1970), The Rule of Metaphor(1977), Time and Narrative(1984), and Memory, History, and Forgetting(2004) — wrote about everything from religion to the logic of the social sciences, working from within a hermeneutical framework that emphasized the complexity and multiplicities of this world and of the ways humans make sense of it.
(Via PTDR)