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.

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 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.

scholarly journals Temps et récit : un défi pour l'écriture de l'histoire. À propos d'une lecture ricœurienne de Landscape and Memory de Simon Schama

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
Josef Řídký
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
The Other ◽  
Work Time ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The One

During the past fifty years, a dispute over the nature of historical discourse has taken place with the narrativist approach, arguing for the dominance of narration in history, on the one hand, and professional historians defending historiography's will to tell the truth, on the other. Paul Ricoeur entered the discussion with his work Time and Narrative where he offered an inventive response. According to him, both narration and scientific explication are essential to historical discourse. To support his statement, he introduces terms such as ‘a third time,‘ ‘a quasi-narration’ or ‘a historical consciousness.’ Thus, he shifts attention from narration to time. These terms can prove their usefulness when interpreting historical works. In the rest of the article, we aim to carry out such an interpretation on the example of Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama. In a Ricœurian perspective, Schama's book reveals its deep time significance.

scholarly journals Traduire le passé : enjeux et défis d’une opération historiographique

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Paul Marinescu
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Past ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Point Of Departure

The aim of this article is to think about possible connections between the hermeneutics of history and the theory of translation, as they were elaborated upon, outlined, perhaps even suggested by Paul Ricœur, taking as its point of departure the question of the translation of the past. This would establish whether the phrase “translation of the past” – that we find in his article of 1998 entitled, "La marque du passé" – could form the title of a coherent programme of a Ricoeurian hermeneutics of history or whether it would remain at the level of metaphors that invite an easy conceptual vagueness.

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 Cuarenta años de La escritura de la Historia. Reflexiones en torno a la operación historiográfica, de Michel de Certeau a Paul Ricoeur / Forty Years of The Writing of History. Reflections on the Historiographical Operation, from Michel de Certeau to Paul Ricoeur

2017 ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás Elias Zeitler
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Past ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
Paul Ricœur

During the past four decades, the studies concerning the historiographical production have adopted, as a favorite reference, what Michel de Certeau called “historiographical operation” in his well-known work L’Ecriture de l’Histoire. On the basis on some comments on it provided by Paul Ricoeur, we shall examine the main aspects of this proposal and discuss its possible adaptation to the current requirements of the writing of history and the practice of historians.Key WordsHistoriographical operation, social place, practice, writing, structuralism, hermeneuticsResumenEn las últimas cuatro décadas, los estudios relativos a la producción historiográfica han tomado, como referencia predilecta, lo que Michel de Certeau denominó “operación historiográfica” en su famoso libro L’Ecriture de l’Histoire. Tomando algunos comentarios de Paul Ricoeur sobre dicha propuesta, nos proponemos examinar los principales aspectos de la misma y discutir su posible adaptación a las actuales exigencias de la escritura de la historia y de la práctica de los historiadores.Palabras clavesOperación historiográfica, lugar social, práctica, escritura, estructuralismo, hermenéutica

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.

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