Product Description: Identifying Selfhood provides the first sustained treatment of the development of Paul Ricoeur s decentered formulation of selfhood from his earliest works to his most recent. For Henry Venema, Ricoeur s affirmation that consciousness is always rooted in the signs, symbols, and texts that precede the hermeneutical project of self-recovery and discovery provides the thread that links all of Ricoeur s philosophical inquiries together...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)