About Digital Ricœur.

The Digital Ricœur website provides access to the work of the French philosopher Paul Ricœur (1913–2005). At present, the material available offers writings by Ricœur. The aim over time is also to include writings on Ricœur. Our work has been supported by the Society for Ricœur Studies, and we are pleased to work in partnership with the Fonds Ricœur.

Along with Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, Ricœur was one of the primary 20^th-century exponents of hermeneutics—the theory of interpretation. He is also well known for his development (and critique) of phenomenology, principally inaugurated by Edmund Husserl. Ricœur additionally gained attention for his work on Freud (Freud and Philosophy) and on religious symbolism (The Symbolism of Evil). His writings in fact addressed a number of domains, including aesthetics, capability and vulnerability, ethics, history, imagination, justice, law, narrative, political theory, psychology and psychoanalysis, religion, and selfhood. Commentators on his work have extended his theories beyond these topics to issues ranging from globalism to musicology to cultural development to environmental ethics.

Given the volume of Ricœur’s writings, it can often be difficult to locate or obtain access to his writings on a particular topic. The Digital Ricœur site provides access to all of his books and articles in English, and the site is in the process of uploading all of his writings in his native French. His work as written in or translated into other languages will be available in the future as the Digital Ricœur project proceeds.

Due to copyright restrictions, the site cannot provide access to full texts. Instead, the site permits text searches that will bring up short contextual results of search terms, similar to the snippets provided on Google Books. (These searches provide legal “fair use.”) The site hopes to provide full text access to sources as agreements with publishers and Ricœur’s literary executors permit.

The site is also undertaking the compilation of a searchable bibliography of Ricœur’s work that over time will include secondary sources.

Full Access to Some External Sources

Some texts have links to open-access external sources. Here are the descriptions of such sources and more information to access directly.

Ricoeur Digital Library at PSL

The "Fonds Paul Ricœur : publications choisies & Archives numériques" is a program funded by the University Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL), supported by the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage - CRAL (CNRS/EHESS). More information on the editorial choices and the team of researchers on the Fonds Ricœur website:

http://fondsricoeur.fr/fr/pages/re-lire-ricoeur-a-l-heure-de-l-edition-numerique.html

For general inquiries into the Fonds Ricoeur editorial and scientific activities, please contact the Fonds Ricoeur Scientific Council at cs.fondsricoeur@gmail.com.

Current Digital Ricœur Team

• Ming Yeung Cheung
  Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, and
  Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Michael A. Johnson (johnsonm@cord.edu)
  Concordia College (Adjunct Faculty), Moorhead, MN

• Fernando Nascimento (fern.nascimento@gmail.com) - Director and Co-Founder
  Bowdoin College, USA

• George Taylor - Co-Founder
  The University of Pittsburgh

Current Web Developer

• David Francis (dfrancis@bowdoin.edu)
  Bowdoin College - Academic Technology

Initial Web Designer

• Philip M^cGrath (philip@philipmcgrath.com)
  The University of Chicago