Abstract

This book sets a noteworthy project, to summarize the "state of the art" in philosophy today. Ricoeur declines to pursue this project by following the popular divisions into "schools" of philosophy, but attempts instead to approach contemporary philosophy in terms of topics, signified by the section headings: "Man and His Forms of Knowledge: Thinking" ; "Man and Natural Reality"; "Man and Social Reality"; "Man and Language"; "Man and Action"; and "Man and the Foundation of Humanism."