Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Question of Selfhood "Person" and Identifying Reference: A Semantic Approach Utterance and the Speaking Subject: A Pragmatic Approach An Agentless Semantics of Action From Action to the Agent Personal Identity and Narrative Identity The Self and Narrative Identity The Self and the Ethical Aim The Self and the Moral Norm The Self and Practical Wisdom: Conviction What Ontology in View? Index

About the Author

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was the John Nuveen Professor in the Divinity School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was the author of many books, including Memory, History, Forgetting, Oneself as Another, and the three-volume Time and Narrative, all published by the University of Chicago Press.