Reagan, Charles. Review of Paul Ricoeur's LIVING UP TO DEATH. NDPR (June 2009).

Ricoeur, Paul. Living up to Death. Trans. David Pellauer. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009. This is a strange book requiring a strange review. It is the publication of some of Paul Ricoeur's previously unpublished writing, which he himself did not intend to publish. The first part of the book comes from notes he made in 1995-96 on the topic of death. After they were written, they were left in a folder and he never returned to them again. In the second part of the book are some of the "fragments" he wrote during his last days, mostly brief reflections on topics which preoccupied him such as life and death, Christianity, his faith and his philosophy, the Bible, his friend Jacques Derrida and resurrection. There is a Preface by Olivier Abel, a long-time friend of Ricoeur's and a Postface by Catherine Goldenstein, also a very close friend for his last ten years. . . . Read the whole review here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=16308.