Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Situated Reading -- Interpretational Structure -- 2. Agency: THE STRUCTURES OF SELFHOOD -- The Structure of Agency -- Capability: The Voluntary and the Involuntary -- Identity: Idem and Ipse -- Attestation: Acting and Suffering Selves -- 3. Meaning: THE NARRATIVE CONFIGURATION OF EXISTENCE -- The Configuration of Meaning -- Understanding: Active Receptivity -- Possibility: Actuality and Potentiality -- Affirmation: A Hermeneutics of Meaningful Existence -- 4. Practice: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE AND MORAL CONCERN -- Practical Experience -- Responsibility:Imputation and Solicitude -- Ethics: Power and Violence -- Witness: Conviction and Fidelity -- 5. Conscience: CONVICTION AND FIDELITY IN THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTICE -- The Testimony of Conscience -- Basic Structures: The Logic of Equivalence and the Logic of Superabundance -- Configuration: The Golden Rule and the Love Command -- Experience:Autonomy and Theonomy -- 6. The Economy of the Gift and the Poetic Imperative -- The Economy of the Gift -- Love and Justice -- The Poetic Imperative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V.