Paul Ricœur: the Concept of Narrative Identity, the Trace of Autobiography

Paragraph ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur

scholarly journals Identidade Narrativa e Identidade Pessoal. Uma Abordagem da Filosofia de Paul Ricoeur

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Sara Margarida de Matos Roma Fernandes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
General Problem ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Physical Traits

This article has the double goal of reflecting on the concept of narrative identity in Paul Ricoeur’s Thinking and of evaluating its contribution to the resolution of the general problem of personal identity. Accordingly, this article will develop the following thesis: 1) narrative identity results from a permanent dialectic between character (sameness, Idem) and selfhood (constancy, Ipse), that is, between subject’s power to relate continuously to himself during all his life through narrative mediation and subject’s psychological and physical traits; 2) personal identity is the continuous ethical and aesthetical (self)recreation and narrative identity brings perfectly together these two domains.

scholarly journals Hermeneutic Notion of a Human Being as an Acting and Suffering Person: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-33
Author(s):  
Andrew Wiercinski
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Human Condition

Acting and suffering subjectivity makes a grand sujet in Ricoeur's philosophy. In his Time and Narrative Ricoeur created the notion of narrative identity which is an individual internalized and evolving life strory. The narrative alone might define the “who”. Whoever lives and exists, suffers. Ricoeur metaphorically defined life as a cloth. We can add, Wiercinski continues, that this cloth is woven with pain. It is pain which makes the cloth, and, at the same time, it is also a joy of the human condition. As humans, we are called to wear this cloth as well as to understand what does it mean - from the hermeneutic perspective.

scholarly journals Paul Ricœur au fondement d’une éthique herméneutique et narrative, enracinée dans une ontologie de l’action

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-159
Author(s):  
Alain Thomasset
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Historical Condition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
Over Time

For Paul Ricœur, human action was a central preoccupation already present in his early work and deepening over time, benefitting from a long engagement with hermeneutical and narrative analyses. It is the concern to locate, through obligatory moral norms, the ethical dimension of desire that guides and motivates action that first makes use of a hermeneutic of signs, symbols, and texts in which the desire of the subject has been expressed. But narratives become essential in order to describe action in such a way that the actor’s responsibility can be evaluated at the level of his narrative identity. To this responsibility, interpreted and taught by means of cultural narratives, the concepts of memory and promise add the dimension of the struggle for recognition and point to an ontology of the historical condition at the foundation of an ethic that rests open to a religious dimension of an original goodness.

scholarly journals Les limites du récit

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Porée
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur

The notions of “narrated time” and “narrative identity” have become, in less than three decades, commonplaces, not only for philosophers, but also for psychologists and ethicists. This would be welcomed, if only it were not used nowadays in what must be called a new dogmatic way. Now, Paul Ricœur indeed asserted, in various ways, the wealth of the notion of narrative; but he also readily acknowleged its limits – aren’t these limits those of hermeneutics itself?

Narrative and ‘the Task’ of Subjectivity

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Niamh Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Thomas Berry ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper examines the relationship between narrative and subjectivity. It begins by examining the subject in the work of Paul Ricoeur and Thomas Berry and the way in which the task of subjectivity for both thinkers is related to narrative. Although occupying different disciplines, both men share a commitment to narrative. Ricoeur in his formation of narrative identity and the unity that this provides to a life, and Berry in his use of narrative in proposing a new human identity. Through an examination of Ricoeur and Berry’s approach to narrative, specifically in how it contributes to the development of subjectivity, this paper suggests that such an approach has validity as a method in addressing the ecological crisis.

scholarly journals Opaque Selves: A Ricœurian Response to Galen Strawson’s Anti- Narrative Arguments

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-89
Author(s):  
Kristofer Camilo Arca
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Epistemic Access ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Galen Strawson

As narrative conceptions of selfhood have gained more acceptance within various disciplines including philosophy, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, so too have these conceptions been critically appraised. Chief among those who are suspicious of the overall viability of ‘narrative identity’ is the philosopher, Galen Strawson. In this paper, I develop five arguments underlying Strawson’s critique of narrative identity, and respond to each argument from the perspective of the hermeneutic phenomenology of Paul Ricœur. Though intuitive, I demonstrate that none of Strawson’s arguments are cogent. The confrontation between these two figures highlights a deep conceptual disagreement about our epistemic access to the self, which has thus far gone unrecognized in the Anglo-American discussion, so that it raises a new problem for the metaphysics of personal identity.

scholarly journals La vida como narrativa: el invisible hilo que da sentido a la historia

2021 ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
Fernando Lara Lara
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Narrative Unity

El objeto de este artículo es formular el concepto de identidad narrativa en Paul Ricoeur. El método empleado ha consistido en la revisión de distintos estudios elaborados por este autor, principalmente, los referidos a Tiempo y narración, L'identité narrative, y en Sí mismo como otro. Se concluye que el concepto de identidad narrativa configura el tiempo como la unidad narrativa de una vida personal y general.The purpose of this article is to formulate the concept of narrative identity in Paul Ricoeur. The method used involved the review of various studies by this author, mainly those related to Time and Narrative, L'identite narrative and Oneself as Another. It is concluded that the concept of narrative identity sets the time as the narrative unity of a personal and general lifestyle.

scholarly journals Narrative Identity against Biographical Illusion: The Shift in Sociology from Bourdieu to Ricœur

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gérôme Truc
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Paul Ricœur

Since the publication of Oneself as Another, many sociologists have referred to the work of Paul Ricœur, some of them considering his notion of narrative identity to be a useful means of analyzing some aspects individual identity left unresolved by Bourdieu’s notion of habitus. Bourdieu had, however, already discredited the sociological relevance of the notion of narrative in his 1986 article “The Biographical Illusion.” Through a careful re-reading of both texts, this article will determine to what extent the sociological use of Ricœur’s notions can escape the confines of Bourdieu’s analysis and, moreover, the different conceptions of the human being and of ethics underlying the two distinct frameworks of analysis. 

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