Major works
1947 : Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l’existence (with M. Dufrenne), Paris : Seuil
1948 : Gabriel Marcel et Karl Jaspers, philosophie du mystère et philosophie du paradoxe, Paris : Seuil
1950 : Idées directrices pour une phénoménologie, E. Husserl, translation and introduction, Gallimard (translation of the introduction and notes by B. Harris and J. Bouchard Spurlock, intro. by P. Vandevelde : A Key to Edmund Husserl’s ideas I ; Milwaukee : Marquette University Press, 1996)
1950 : Freedom and Nature : The Voluntary and the Involuntary (Le Volontaire et l'Involontaire translated by Erazim Kohak. Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1966)
1955 : History and Truth. (Histoire et vérité ; translated by Charles A. Kelbley. Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1965)
1960 : Fallible Man (Philosophie de la volonté. Finitude et culpabilité. I. L'homme faillible ; translated by Ch. A. Kelbley, Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1965)
1960 : The Symbolism of Evil (Philosophie de la volonté. Finitude et culpabilité. II. La symbolique du mal ; translated by Emerson Buchanan. New York : Harper and Row, 1967)
1965 : Freud and Philosophy : An Essay on Interpretation (De l'interprétation. Essai sur Freud ; translated by Denis Savage. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1970)
1968 : Entretiens Paul Ricoeur et Gabriel Marcel. Paris : Aubier. (English translation in : Conversations between Paul Ricoeur and Gabriel Marcel ; Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 1973)
1969 : The Conflict of Interpretations : Essays in Hermeneutics (Le conflit des interprétations. Essais d'herméneutique ; ed. Don Ihde, trans. Willis Domingo et al. Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1974)
1975 : The Rule of Metaphor : Multi-Disciplinary Studies in the Creation of Meaning in Language (La métaphore vive ; translated by Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello, s.j., Toronto : the university of Toronto Press, 1977 ; London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978)
1976 : Interpretation Theory : Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning. Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press
1980 : The Contribution of French Historiography to the Theory of History (unpublished in French)
1983, 1984, 1985 : Time and Narrative, 3 vols. (Temps et Récit, vol I, II, III ; translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984, 1985, 1988)
1986 : From Text to Action : Essays in Hermeneutics II (Du texte à l'action translated by Kathleen Blamey and John B. Thompson. Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1991)
1986 : À l’école de la phénoménologie, Paris : librairie philosophique J. Vrin
1986 : Le Mal, un défi à la philosophie et à la théologie, Geneva : Labor et Fides
1990 : Oneself as Another (Soi-même comme un autre translated by Kathleen Blamey. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992)
1990 : Amour et justice, Tübingen : Mohr
1991 : Lectures 1, Autour du politique, Paris : Seuil
1992 : Lectures 2, La contrée des philosophes, Paris : Seuil
1994 : Lecture 3, Aux frontières de la philosophie, Paris : Seuil
1995 : Réflexion faite. Autobiographie intellectuelle. Paris : Editions Esprit ("Intellectual Autobiography" The philosophy of Paul Ricoeur ; edit. L.E. Hanhn. Chicago-La salle, Ill. : Open Court, 1995)
1995 : Critique and Conviction (La critique et la conviction. Entretien avec François Azouvi et Marc de Launay. Translated by Kathleen Blamey. New York : Columbia University Press, 1998)
1995 : The Just (trans. of Le Juste I by David Pellauer. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000)
1997 : Autrement. Lecture d’Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l'essence d’Emmanuel Levinas, Paris : PUF
1998 : What Makes Us Think ? (trans. of La nature et la règle, ce qui nous fait penser (with J-P Changeux). Princeton University Press, 2002)
1998 : Thinking Biblically. Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies (André Lacocque et Paul Ricoeur). Chicago : University of Chicago Press (Penser la Bible, André Lacocque et Paul Ricoeur, Paris : Seuil, 1998)
2000 : Memory, History, Forgetting (La mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer, Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 2004)
2001 : Le Juste II. Paris : Editions Esprit (translated by David Pellauer : Reflections on the Just, University of Chicago Press, 2007)
2004 : The Course of Recognition (trans. of Parcours de la reconnaissance by David Pellauer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press, 2005)
2007 : Vivant jusqu'à la mort and Fragments (posthumous book), Paris : Seuil
Collections of Ricoeur’s articles and writings edited by others
– Husserl. An Analysis of his Phenomenology (translation of several articles with an introduction by E. G. Ballard and L. E. Embree ; Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1967)
– Political and Social Essays (translation of several essays with a preface by P. Ricoeur and an introduction by the editors D. Stewart and J. Bien ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1974)
– The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. An anthology of his work. Edited by Charles Reagan and D. Stewart. Boston : Beacon Press, 1978
– Essays on Biblical Interpretation. Edited by L. Mudge. Philadelphia : Fortress Press, 1980
– Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences. Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation ; Edited, translated and introduced by J. B. Thompson, Cambridge University Press, 1981
– Lectures on Ideology and Utopia. Edited by G. H. Taylor. New York : Columbia University Press, 1986 (translated into French by M. Revault d'Allonnes : L'idéologie et l'utopie. Paris : Seuil, 1997)
– A Ricoeur Reader : Reflection and Imagination. Edited by M. J. Valdès. New-York-London-Toronto-Sydney-Tokyo-Singapore : Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1991
– Figuring the Sacred. Religion, Narrative, and Imagination. Translated by D. Pellauer, edited by M. I. Wallace. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 1995