Between the Said and the Unsaid: In Conversation with Paul Ricoeur- Volume I (Philosophie, Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik der Werte)

This volume presents three interviews with Paul Ricoeur with the purpose to scrutinize the complex philosophical evolution of his thought. The main question which arises, therefore, and on which are centered the two volumes is how to «think together» the difference between the issues of Ricoeur’s first works and those of his later ones, concerning the problems of the self and its relation to being, transcendence and language. Other discussed subjects are: Why philosophy today? If philosophy and religion are two autonomous fields, is there a possibility of elaborating a religious philosophy within the method of hermeneutic phenomenology? What is the primary object of hermeneutics? What are the potentialities of language and its bounds, respectively the limits of interpretation?

The Author: Yvanka B. Raynova, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department for Contemporary European Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Director of the Institute for Axiological Research in Vienna.