Moreover, he shares the liberal concern that interpreters of the Bible should be in dialogue with all that has
gone on in «the great romance of
culture «13 and all that is happening in contemporary experience, in Ricoeur's hands interpretation is always confronted with the perspective of «
counter disciplines»: physiology, psychoanalysis sociology, anthropology, linguistics, the history of philosophy.
The other three stories
go for more politically tinged storylines, dealing with Vietnam on both the home and war fronts, including the
counter culture hippies that are a result of the desire to drop out of the reality of life for young people in the Sixties.