Appendix B -Heuristic for Document Selection

Appendix B - Heuristic for Document Selection

1. For texts with multiple translations or duplicates, texts in collections were included in the corpus as these are often the versions most cited

   1. E.g. “Toward a Hermeneutic of the Idea of Revelation” in the Harvard Theological Review was excluded while “Toward a Hermeneutic of the Idea of Revelation” in Essays on Biblical Interpretation was included

2. If none of the texts were included in a collection or if multiple translations were used in different collections, the most recent text was included

   1. E.g. "The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text." in Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences (published 1981) was excluded while “The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered As a Text” in From Text to Action (published 1986)

3. Did not included as they are responses to outside prompts and do not necessarily reflect Ricoeur’s main scholarship at that point in time

   1. Interviews 

      1. E.g “History as Narrative and Practice. Peter Kemp talks to Paul Ricoeur in Copenhagen.” Philosophy Today 29/3 (1985) 213-222.

   2. Debates, discussions, dialogues, and roundtables

      1. E.g. “Roundtable Discussion.” Memory, Narrativity, Self and the Challenge to Think God. Edited by M. Junker-Kenny and P. Kenny. Münster: Lit Verlag and Brunsvick - London: Transaction Publishers, 2004, 202-216.

   3. Acceptance speeches

      1. E.g. “Acceptance Speech of Paul Ricoeur at the John W. Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences (December 2004).” The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/prize/winners.html.

   4. Commencement addresses

      1. E.g. “Commencement Address at Boston College.” Congressional Record 121/94 (1975) June 16, E.3193.

   5. Forwards, introductions, and prefaces to texts not written by Ricouer 

      1. E.g. “Introduction.” Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights. Prepared by Unesco and the International Institute of Philosophy. Paris: Unesco, 1986, 9-29.

   6. Commemorative texts

      1. E.g. "In memoriam Emmanuel Levinas." Philosophy Today 40/3 (1996) 331- 333.

   7. Autobiographical work 

      1. E.g. “Intellectual Autobiography.” The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. Edited by L.E. Hahn. Chicago La Salle (Illinois): Open Court, 1995, 1-53.

   8. Sermons

      1. E.g. "Listening to the Parables of Jesus." The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur: An Anthology of His Work. Edited by Charles E. Reagan and David Stewart. Boston: Beacon Press. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited, 1978, 239-245.         

   9. Reviews, critical discussions, replies, responses, and comments 

      1. E.g. “Phenomenology [book review on Phenomenologie et materialisme dialectique by Tran Duc Thao].” The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy (Husserl-Issue) 5/3 (1974) 149-168.

   10. Encyclopedia entries

       1. “Myth: Myth and History.” The Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 10. Published under the chief editorship of M. Eliade. New York-London: MacMillan, 1987, 273-282.

4. Miscellaneous 

   1. Main Trends in Philosophy. New York-London: Holmes and Meier, 1979, xvii-469 p. Translated into Japanese by I.I.5 and I.I.6 - into Chinese by I.S. l.

      1. Book republished book-length sections on philosophy from Main Trends of Research. As Ricoeur makes evident in his Foreword to the present volume, much of it was written by other scholars and then edited by Ricoeur. Further analysis is necessary to determine the sections written by Ricoeur.”

   2. “The Greatness and Fragility of Political Language.” The Forty-Second John Findley Green Foundation Lecture [delivered at Westminster College, Fulton (Missouri) 1987]. Philosophy Today 31/1 (1987) 35-44.

      1. Almost identical to "The Fragility of Political Language," aside from minor stylistic changes and some changes in opening and closing paragraphs.

   3. "The Later Wittgenstein and the Later Husserl on Language," Etudes Ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies 5:1 (2014) 28-48.

      1. First published after Ricoeur’s death so we cannot place it within a certain period of production