The Great City Is Fragile

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Kevin Robins
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Great City ◽  
Chinese Author ◽  
The City ◽  
Day By Day

Abstract This article explores issues covered in Wuhan Diary, a day-by-day account by the Chinese author Fang Fang of her experiences during the height of the pandemic crisis in the city of Wuhan during the early months of 2020. It seeks to bring out what is distinctive and innovative about the text. Most notably, this concerns the mobilization of social media, such as Weibo and WeChat, as a basis for social communication and the dissemination of information within and beyond the city. The resultant text is not a diary in the conventional sense but, rather, a vast montage of diverse kinds of material that have been electronically cut up and pasted together. A particular focus of the discussion concerns ethical support and solidarity among citizens of Wuhan at this time of acute disruption. In this context, the article suggests a significant, and maybe surprising, affinity between Fang Fang's immediate concerns and issues raised in the ethical philosophies of Paul Ricoeur and Gabriel Marcel.

scholarly journals How Can Phenomenology Address Classic Objections to Liturgy?

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Barnabas Aspray
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
Repetitive Nature ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Human Condition

Liturgical worship has at times been controversial within parts of the Christian tradition. This article uses phenomenology—especially the thought of Paul Ricœur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Gabriel Marcel—to analyse, evaluate, and respond to five common objections to liturgy by those who reject it: (1) the absence of freedom and spontaneity, (2) the absence of authenticity, (3) the use of symbols to mediate the divine, (4) the use of the liturgical calendar, and (5) liturgy’s repetitive nature. This article concludes that those who practice liturgy have something to learn from each objection, but that none of the objections invalidates liturgy. On the contrary, what phenomenology teaches us about the human condition suggests that liturgy is more suitable than forms of worship that try to do without it.

Unavailability: When Neighbors Become Strangers

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 560-571
Author(s):  
Boyd Blundell
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
Severe Handicap ◽  
Initial Task ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Stranger

AbstractRichard Kearney’s Anatheism: Returning to God After God has hospitality to the stranger as one of its central features. This article traces the roots of such hospitality back through Kearney’s mentor Paul Ricoeur to Ricoeur’s own mentor, Gabriel Marcel. Marcel’s analysis of the role of abstraction in philosophical reflection leads him to propose a réflexion seconde as a means of avoiding the lure of the “spirit of abstraction.” Necessary to second reflection is the cultivation of the virtue Marcel calls “availability,” and it is in light of this elemental, though often elusive, ground for thinking and living that even the best ambitions of the hospitable wager are put to a strenuous test. The second part of the article takes up the case of post-Katrina New Orleans as a way of showing that in a consumerist and calculative society there is a default resistance to availability and therefore a severe handicap to entering even the most basic scene of hospitality. The intractable lack of availability thus rivals the otherwise provocative summons to the threshold of welcome, even where it concerns the neighbor. The anatheistic wager, though profound in its own right, will rarely be undertaken, and “available” inquiry thus faces a more elemental initial task.

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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