在过去的几十年中，记忆问题受到越来越多历史学家和哲学家的关注。在《记忆，历史，遗忘》一书中，法国哲学家保罗·利科在细致研读亚里士多德、柏拉图、笛卡尔、康德、哈布瓦赫与诺拉等诸多思想家的基础上，考察了记忆、历史与遗忘三个主题之间的关系。第一部分以现象学方法来处理历史与记忆之术的关系。第二部分通过重新讨论历史知识的本质及其真理问题来评述史学家最近撰述的著作。第三部分探讨的是在历史条件下，把遗忘作为记忆的一种情形的必要性，以及思考是否可能存在着与快乐记忆相平行的快乐遗忘。
法国现任总统马克龙在求学期间，曾参与本书的编辑整理工作。

编辑推荐：
※20世纪现象学代表性人物保罗·利科的大师之作
※从翻译学入手探讨主体性问题的重要阐释学文本
※附本雅明《译者的任务》新译本及长文导读，沟通学术史脉络，逐段细读本雅明。
内容简介：
本书由两部分组成。第一部分收录了保罗·利科的三篇探讨翻译相关问题的文章，作为当代阐释学的代表性学者，利科对于翻译的关注来自一种探索主体间理解可能性的本能。“阐释学建立在对言语的不理解之上。”而翻译的任务正是疏通其间种种障碍，使理解成为可能。因此对于利科而言，翻译不限于语间交际行为，也发生于语内甚至是语言于其他符号系统之间。第二部分收录了瓦尔特·本雅明名作《译者的任务》的新译本，并有译者长文导读。此译本以德语原文为准绳，同时参考该文法、英两种语言译本四种，力争在多语言的相互关照中逐渐贴近本雅明所言“重现纯语言”的翻译理想。
翻译是一场艰难的赌博，有时竟会无法为继。我先要用上些时间，讲述翻译中的困难。“考验”一词可以精准地概括这些困难，因着它有“受苦”和“检验”两重意思。就像人们所说的那样，经受一项计划、一个欲望，甚至是一种冲动的考验：翻译冲动。 ——保罗·利科 《翻译的挑战与幸福》

《活的隐喻》是法国著名哲学家保罗·利科继《意志哲学》和《历史与真理》之后的第三部主要著作，是关于隐喻的专著。全书由八篇论文组成，分别阐述了隐喻与符号学、修辞学、语义学、诗学和诠释学的关系与理论。作者系统介绍了从古希腊的亚里士多德、柏拉图以及西方近代哲学家海德格尔、维特根斯坦一直到现代语言学家对隐喻的看法，并从词汇、句子等不同角度对隐喻这一千古之谜作了深入细致的探讨。

Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern.
Ricoeur finds a "healthy circle" between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent that it portrays temporal experience. Ricoeur proposes a theoretical model of this circle using Augustine's theory of time and Aristotle's theory of plot and, further, develops an original thesis of the mimetic function of narrative. He concludes with a comprehensive survey and critique of modern discussions of historical knowledge, understanding, and writing from Aron and Mandelbaum in the late 1930s to the work of the Annales school and that of Anglophone philosophers of history of the 1960s and 1970s.
"This work, in my view, puts the whole problem of narrative, not to mention philosophy of history, on a new and higher plane of discussion."?Hayden White, History and Theory
"Superb. . . . A fine point of entrance into the work of one of the eminent thinkers of the present intellectual age."?Joseph R. Gusfield, Contemporary Sociology

Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. Oneself as Another, the clearest account of his "philosophical ethics," substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals. Focusing on the concept of personal identity, Ricoeur develops a hermeneutics of the self that charts its epistemological path and ontological status.

Symbolism of Evil is a Beacon Press publication.

Review
‘The essays which John Thompson has assembled under the title Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences are all taken from Ricoeur’s recent work … The essays have been chosen with care, and the volume has the benefit of an extensive introduction by its editor. It offers a comprehensive and integrated conspectus of Ricoeur’s ideas … I do not think that anyone would fail to find illumination and challenge in reading him.’ Anthony Giddens, The Times Literary Supplement
‘Paul Ricoeur is the most important living representative of phenomenology in France. A prolific writer, his work has exerted considerable influence in several areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of religion, the study of symbolism, of metaphor and language … Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences provides an excellent introduction to Ricoeur’s work, which, by focusing on his more recent writings, will serve to inject his themes and perspectives into the mainstream of inquiry in sociological theory.’ The Times Higher Education Supplement
‘John B. Thompson’s lucid and helpful introduction to this collection of essays includes a brief history of Ricoeur’s career and the thematic focuses of his major works : This selection of essays makes available in one piece Ricoeur’s attempt in the seventies to address the challenges from various intellectual fronts. These confrontations do not present an eclecticism, but rather, constitute a continuous, ongoing, and open intellectual response, addressing not only real philosophical issues dealing especially with interpretation, but issues relevant to the social sciences, psychology, psychoanalysis, theology, and many more disciplines.’ Review of Metaphysics
Product Description
This is a collection in translation of essays by Paul Ricoeur which presents a comprehensive view of his philosophical hermeneutics, its relation to the views of his predecessors in the tradition and its consequences for the social sciences. The volume has three parts. The studies in the first part examine the history of hermeneutics, its central themes and the outstanding issues it has to confront. In Part II, Ricoeur’s own current, constructive position is developed. A concept of the text is formulated as the implications of the theory are pursued into the domains of sociology, psychoanalysis and history. Many of the essays appear here in English for the first time; the editor’s introduction brings out their background in Ricoeur’s thought and the continuity of his concerns. The volume will be of great importance for those interested in hermeneutics and Ricoeur’s contribution to it, and will demonstrate how much his approach offers to a number of disciplines.