The Cogito and Hermeneutics : The Question of the Subject in Ricoeur

I The Cogito and Hermeneutics.- 1. Hermeneutics in contemporary philosophy.- 2. Critique of the subject and interpretation of the cogito. Heidegger and Ricoeur.- 3. Ricoeur. Phenomenology of the will and "unquietness" of the Subject.- 4. Paradox and mediation in Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology.- 5. Crisis of the Philosophie de l'esprit. Human sciences, "methodic" hermeneutics.- 6. The destruction of the illusions of consciousness. Psychoanalysis as language theory.- 7. The challenge of semiology and the phenomenology of language. The reinterpretation of phenomenology as language theory.- 8. Concrete reflexion and the intersubjectivity question. Towards a hermeneutics of the I am.- 9. "Originary Affirmation," philosophies of negativity, problematics of the subject. Nabert and Thevenaz.- 10. Ricoeur and Heidegger. The cogito and hermeneutics.- II Text, Metaphor, Narrative.- 1. The history of hermeneutics. Text theory.- x1 Hermeneutics from Schleiermacher to Gadamer.- x2 Hermeneutics as text theory in Ricoeur.- 2. Hermeneutic phenomenology.- x1 The hermeneutic critique of phenomenological idealism.- x2 Towards a hermeneutic phenomenology.- 3. Living metaphor.- 4. Towards a poetics of freedom.- x1 The circle of temporality and narrativity. Distentio animi and mythos.- x2 Narrative discourse between history and fiction.- x3 The dialectics of threefold mimesis. Towards a poetics of freedom.- Afterword.- Time, sacrality, narrative: interview with Paul Ricoeur.- Abbreviations.- Notes.- Bibliographical note.- Index of names.- Index of subjects.