In this new book Paul Ricoeur - one of the greatest contemporaryphilosophers - offers a personal reflection on his life and on thethemes which have preoccupied him over the course of his career. Ranging across topics in ethics and metaphysics, psychoanalysisand hermeneutics, history, politics and religion, Critique andConviction provides unique insight into the ideas and sourcesof influence which have shaped Ricoeur's philosophical approach anddefined his core concerns. Ricoeur also discusses in detail anumber of topics about which he has not written extensively before,including questions of aesthetics and current affairs. This remarkable testimony by one of the leading philosophers ofthe twentieth century will be of great interest to students ofphilosophy, theology, literary theory and social and politicaltheory.