Paul Ricoeur and the future of the humanities

2014 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-114
Author(s):  
Martijn Boven ◽  
Eddo Evink ◽  
Gert-Jan van der Heiden
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals ‘Gaston Bachelard, half-way between science and the object’ (A matter of Bergsonian and Bachelardian judgement)

Literator ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-64
Author(s):  
C. P. Marie
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Gaston Bachelard ◽  
Object A ◽  
The Past ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Future

In a recent book published in Montreal, Bachelard ou le Concept Contre l'image, Jean-Pierre Roy suggests that idealists have in recent years attempted a recouping of Bachelard’s works in a way that would proceed from “a humanist ideology of literature” (1977, p.203) and he mentions Georges Poulet, Jean-Pierre Richard and Paul Ricoeur. Indeed he sees a rupture between Bachelard’s approach to works of art and his epistemology, which would place him in the camp of rigorous knowledge, and Jean-Pierre Roy refers to Barthes, Genette and Derrida (1977, p.219). The author of the book concludes that the poetics of Bachelard belong to a time which is anterior to that of his epistemology. This is of course a verdict which allows for the rejection of a mode of thinking which belongs to the past and which cannot be seen flourishing in the future channels of what Marxists hold as the sense of history.

Paul Ricœur and the “Theological Turn” in French Phenomenology

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-179
Author(s):  
Eileen Brennan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Indirect Response ◽  
Theological Turn ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Direction

Dominique Janicaud considered Paul Ricœur an ally in the dispute with those who, like Emmanuel Lévinas and Jean-Luc Marion, allegedly failed to keep phenomenology within its proper methodological limits. Janicaud also claimed to have been guided by Ricœur when it came to developing positive proposals for the future direction of phenomenology. This paper argues, however, that Janicaud misinterpreted key passages in works by Ricœur that address phenomenological issues. It also offers alternative readings which take account of the wider context. Thus, for example, Ricœur’s comments on Lévinasian phenomenology are shown to be appreciative rather than polemical. The paper also discusses Ricœur’s rarely commented upon oblique and indirect response to Janicaud, which establishes that Ricœur chose to align himself with phenomenologists who had taken “the theological turn.”

Judith 5:5-21 ou le récit d’Akhior: les mémoires dans la construction de l’identité narrative du peuple d’Israël

2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Gil ◽  
Eberhard Bons
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Memory ◽  
Memory Systems ◽  
The People ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Book Of Judith

In the book of Judith, the Ammonite official Achior tries to dissuade Holofernes from engaging in war against the people of Israel. In fact, he is convinced that the God of Israel will protect his people. Achior’s description of these “mountain folk” is an example of how the identity of an entire people can be conceived. Like a single person’s identity, collective identity finds its roots in memory and, by consequence, within the various human memory systems. In particular, one can distinguish an episodic (“remembering” events or situations already experienced) and and a semantic (“knowing” about events, concepts, objects, ideas or facts) memory. The present study attempts to describe how episodic and semantic memories contribute in constructing and narrating the identity of the people of Israel. Achior’s speech also allows for a distinction between two other facets of identity, as described by Paul Ricoeur: that of “sameness” (“idem” identity, based on uninterrupted continuity or permanence in time) and that of “selfhood” (“ipse” identity, based on self-constancy or self-maintenance). Thus, the narration of such a collective identity enables Achior to project himself into the future and to affirm that the God of Israel would protect his people against the Assyrian army.

scholarly journals The Aporetics of Temporality and the Poetics of the Will

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-27
Author(s):  
Roger W. H. Savage
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Future ◽  
Intended Object ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Way

The aporias of time that Paul Ricœur identifies in the conclusion to his three-volume Time and Narrative offer a fecund starting-point from which to consider how the poetics of narrativity figures in a philosophy of the will. By setting the poetics of narrativity against the aporetics of temporality, Ricoeur highlights the narrative art’s operative power in drawing together incidents and events in answer to time’s dispersion across the present, the past, and the future. In turn, the confession of the limits of narrative opens the way to a broader consideration of the idea of the unity of history in the absence of a meta-historical plot. This idea calls for a reflection on the ethical and political imperative of making freedom a reality for all. By taking the theory of freedom’s actualization as a touchstone, I argue that the vision of a reconciled humanity that for Ricœur is the intended object of the poetics of the will acquires the force of a directive idea. The capacity to refashion the real from within thus proves to be decisive for drawing out the connection between the aporetics of temporality, the poetics of narrativity, and Ricœur’s philosophical anthropology.

scholarly journals Bildung through films: How to discuss existential questions in academia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Koster
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Moral Case Deliberation ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Future ◽  
Moral Case ◽  
University Lecturers ◽  
The University ◽  
The Ideal

Much has been written on the future of the academy within Europe. Raising questions about the ongoing aims of the university, critical authors have argued in favour of old but sometimes forgotten values such as 'critical thinking' and ' Bildung '. Joining such voices, this paper argues that one way to achieve the ideal of Bildung is through the use of films with 'existential themes', such as Rolando Colla's film 7 Giorni ( 7 Days , 2016). I explore how films may contribute to the realization of the ideal of Bildung , and how an education based upon such films might be constructed. In doing so, I refer to the work of Paul Ricoeur on the 'hermeneutical arc', and apply the method of 'moral case deliberation' in interpreting the existential dimensions in film. Ultimately, I hope this article will serve to assist other university lecturers in exploring how Bildung may be realized in higher education settings through watching and analysing films.

scholarly journals Making Sense of History with Paul Ricœur and Jan Patočka: From the Past, In the Present, Toward the Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Clorinda Vendra
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Future

Paul Ricœur and Jan Patočka are considered among the most important phenomenologists of the 20th century. As with Ricœur, Patočka’s philosophy is shaped by an enduring critical confrontation with Husserl’s phenomenology and Heidegger’s phenomenological analyses of Dasein. The present paper aims at analyzing Ricœur’s and Patočka’s convergences and mutual inspirations in their perspectives on the topic of history. More precisely, I will take up the question of the meaning of history in Ricœur and Patočka as profoundly influenced by their readings of Husserl’s Krisis. Then, the attention will be turned to Ricœur’s concept of historicity and Patočka’s notion of care of the soul as concerns involved in the search for meaning in history as an open-ended mediation. In this context, I will discuss Ricœur’s and Patočka’s critical examination of Heidegger’s conception of thrownness (Geworfenheit) and projection (Entwerfen), that is, Dasein’s already-being-in-the-world and its disclosedness, as necessary concepts for understanding their own philosophical approaches to history.

Literature and the Philosophy of Paul Ricœur

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 203-210
Author(s):  
Valdés Mario J.
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur

PAUL RICOEUR (1913-2005)

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (109) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Jorge Enrique González
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Siglo Xx

<p>Hace cien años nació en Valence (Francia) el filósofo Paul Ricoeur. Su obra ha sido objeto de variados análisis, y ha sido el origen de una gran cantidad de estudios filosóficos así como propios del ámbito las ciencias humanas y sociales contemporáneas. En estas breves líneas, se quiere rendir homenaje a uno de los pensadores más importantes del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI, destacando no solo su trabajo estrictamente filosófico, sino una peculiaridad de su trabajo que lo aproxima de manera decisiva a algunas de las disciplinas de las ciencias humanas y sociales.</p>

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