1. See his views on this in Paul Ricoeur, “Intellectual Autobiography,” in Lewis Edwin Hahn (ed.), The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur (Chicago: Open Court, 1995), 3–53.
2. Hans-Georg Gadamer, “Without Poets There Is No Philosophy,” Radical Philosophy, 69 (Jan/Feb 1995): 27.
3. Emmanuel Levinas, Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures (New York: Continuum, 2007); In The Time of The Nations (New York: Continuum, 2007).
4. See Ali Paya, “The Hesitant Rationalist,” The Centre for the Study of Democracy Bulletin, 15, 1 (2007–2008): 19.
5. Ali Rahnema, An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali shari’ati (London: I.B. Tauris, 2000).