After Of Habit

2019 ◽  
pp. 62-94
Author(s):  
Mark Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
French Philosophy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Embodied Action

This chapter examines the reception of Ravaisson’s account of habit in later nineteenth- and twentieth-century French philosophy. The first two sections examine its reception in the work of Albert Lemoine, Léon Dumont, and Henri Bergson. The third section examines its reception in the work of the French phenomenologists and theorists of the lived body, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur. The chapter shows how Ravaisson’s account of inclination relates to these notions of the lived body. In conclusion, it shows how contemporary Merleau-Ponty-inspired accounts of pre-reflective, embodied action as a form of ‘coping’ can be extended by Ravaisson’s concern for tendency and inclination in motor habit.

Time

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-179
Author(s):  
Jesse Matz
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Phenomenological Hermeneutics ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

Orlando and other texts express Woolf’s interest in subjective ‘time in the mind’, an interest she shared with other modernists who challenged chronological norms, but Woolf explored other forms of time as well. Some align her work with the theories of Henri Bergson, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Mary Sturt, and this variety—the way Woolf developed forms of time across her career as a writer—tracks with the phenomenological hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. His Time and Narrative explains the dialectical pattern according to which Woolf perpetually found new ways for time and narrative to shape each other, culminating in novels that thematize this reciprocal relationship between the art of narrative and possibilities for temporal engagement. Woolf’s early fiction breaks with linear chronology, starting a series of virtuoso performances of temporal poiesis.

„Werde, der du bist!“. Selbsterkenntnis, Handeln und Selbstgestaltung bei Nietzsche in einem Ineditum von Georges Canguilhem

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-216
Author(s):  
Marco Brusotti
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Karl Jaspers ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
French Philosophy ◽  
Georges Canguilhem ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Objective Content

Abstract In an unpublished text from the early postwar period, Georges Canguilhem deals with Nietzsche’s maxim “Become who you are!” Is this “apparently contradictory formula of a philosopher full of contradictions” really only seemingly inconsistent? Canguilhem regards it as a norm whose supposed metaphysical or objective content dissolves upon further analysis. So he here discerns a new instance of the same potential confusion he had already addressed in his classical essay on The Normal and the Pathological (1943). According to him, the formula “become who you are!” must not be misunderstood in a naturalistic sense, a tendency from which not even Nietzsche himself, Canguilhem thinks, was entirely free. Besides the French philosophy of his time, his philosophical inquiry into “Become who you are!” critically engages two classic German Nietzsche scholars, Ernst Bertram and Karl Jaspers, as well as the French interpreters of the latter’s philosophy of Existenz, Mikel Dufrenne and Paul Ricœur. Finally, the paper highlights Nietzsche’s specific importance for Canguilhem and the ambivalence in his privileged relationship to the German thinker.

EMILE BOUTROUX, REDEFINING SCIENCE AND FAITH IN THE THIRD REPUBLIC

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOEL REVILL
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
French Philosophy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Dreyfus Affair ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Science And Faith

Historians have convincingly shown the extent to which Protestantism played a role in the founding of the Third Republic, undermining the once canonical claim that republicanism and religion were implacably hostile opponents in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Catholics, however, continue to be viewed as nearly universally antirepublican. Analyzing the writings of philosopher Emile Boutroux and his students, this article shows how the specifically Catholic concern with the relationship between free will and scientific concepts of determinism both influenced the direction of French philosophy of science into the twentieth century and provided a framework for defending the Republic at the height of the Dreyfus affair.

scholarly journals Ricoeur's theory of narrative time and one hundred years of solitude

1969 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 173-182
Author(s):  
Luis Gustavo Álvarez Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Cyclical Time ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Narrative Time ◽  
Century Literature

Paul Ricoeur´s narrative theory of time proposes that we, during our reading, move backwards and forward in narrative time and that “temporality springs forth in the plural unity of future, past and present” (167) . In utilizing his theory of time and the idea of cyclical time as a prominent characteristic in twentieth century literature, I attempt to apply his intriguing theory to an exemplary novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. The essay demonstrates how the circularity of the imaginary travel and the linearity of the quest as such are thus put together. Indeed, time is circular and recurrent rather than rectilinear and progressive in this novel wherein readers are moved between present, past and future time.

scholarly journals MEMÓRIA PARA HENRI BERGSON E PAUL RICOEUR: BUSCANDO APROXIMAÇÕES

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Kamila Gusatti Dias ◽  
Maria Zeneide Carneiro Magalhães de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Paul Ricœur

Este trabalho versa sobre o conceito de memória, evidenciando sua centralidade no processo de construção do conhecimento histórico. Tem-se, como objetivo nesse escopo, entender o conceito de memória, para este pressuposto, toma-se como referência o pensamento de Henri Bergson e Paul Ricoeur. Trata-se, portanto, de uma pesquisa de cunho bibliográfico, pautada na reflexão de autores que dialogam frente à esta proposição. Os dois filósofos apresentam diferentes concepções em relação ao conceito da memória. Nossa reflexão não pretende escolher entre uma das concepções, nosso intento é aprofundar o debate teórico pretendendo colaborar com questões que implica diretamente na construção do conhecimento e na prática historiográfica.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: memória; Paul Ricoeur; Henri Bergson. 

scholarly journals Telling the Story of Space. Between Design and Construction

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
Giovanna Costanzo
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Short Circuits ◽  
Identity And Difference ◽  
Design And Construction

Philosophy has always examined subjectivity in terms of its relationship with time, but less frequently has it engaged with the theme of space; however, as soon as it begins to do this, it runs into questions that remain very much open. Paul Ricoeur only moved onto considering the topic of space after having reflected at length on time and the temporality inhabited by subjectivity. Making space a topic means not only thinking about the extension of the one's own body as a lived body but also reflecting on that physical space in which "the other comes closer and where the close becomes other" and in which the encounter of identity and difference creates continuous short circuits, especially in the increasingly congested western metropolises. Starting from the "unexpected application" of the narrative dimension to architecture, Ricoeur goes on to develop an interesting reflection on space built and space inhabited.

scholarly journals Entre evocar e projetar:

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 117-130
Author(s):  
Estela Sahm
Keyword(s):  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Paul Ricœur

O presente texto procura observar as relações possíveis entre a obra literária de Marcel Proust Em busca do tempo perdido e alguns conceitos caros a Henri Bergson, naquilo que concernem às questões do tempo, da memória e da percepção: de que forma podemos encontrar aproximações entre esta narrativa literária e o discurso filosófico de Bergson. Pretende, também, a partir de Paul Ricœur em Tempo e narrativa, examinar, na obra proustiana, os recursos da linguagem dita literária no que diz respeito a este tema. Trata, portanto, da confluência entre a abordagem filosófica e a teoria literária moderna, na sua articulação tempo/linguagem.

Arne Grøn’s Existential Hermeneutics: Existence, Ethics and Religion

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-132
Author(s):  
Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen ◽  
Mads Peter Karlsen ◽  
René Rosfort
Keyword(s):  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Self ◽  
Philosophical Method ◽  
The Third ◽  
Paul Ricœur

This paper presents an introduction to Arne Grøn’s existential hermeneutics as a philosophical method, while also attempting to indicate how Grøn’s work contributes to and engages in a number of crucial topics in modern continental philosophy. The first section of the paper shows how Grøn draws on Paul Ricoeur and Michael Theunissen to rethink the concept of existence through a reading of Kierkegaard that uncouples this concept from the self-evident status it attained in twenty-century existentialism. The second section of the paper argues that Grøn proposes an existential ethics that takes the Kierkegaardian notion that humans are inherently normative beings and uses this as a basis for a critique of ethics, as well as for establishing an ethics of vision inspired by Kierkegaard. The third section of the paper presents a reading of Grøn’s notion of religion as an inextricable part of human existence.

4. Post-Revolutionary philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Stephen Gaukroger ◽  
Knox Peden
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
French Philosophy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Old Order ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
The Relationship

After the French Revolution, philosophy and the rapid rise of individualism were blamed for the bloodshed. ‘Post-Revolutionary philosophy: the nineteenth century and the Third Republic’ introduces thinkers like Auguste Comte, who ushered in socialism by arguing that Enlightenment ideas had toppled the old order of monarchy and religion, but that their individualism potentially hampered progress. Progress, epitomized by science, was the goal in nineteenth-century French philosophy. Rationalism and the ‘critical idealism’ of Léon Brunschvicg were not the only schools of thought. The Romantic philosopher Henri Bergson tackled the relationship between mind, body, and spirit by defining knowledge as a process.

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