A Review of Living Up to Death by Paul Ricoeur, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, 132 pp., $22.50.
In recent years there have been a number of publications written shortly before the author’s death. I am thinking of Jacques Derrida’s Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview (2007), Dorothee Soelle’s The Mystery of Death (2007) and now the book under review. What the three works have in common is that each presents a…