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5 days ago · This article reexamines meaning, agency, and interpretation by challenging the view that they require primary or secondary agency. Using Paul Ricœur’s narrative temporality, it explores Terrence Deacon’s autogenic theory, reinterpreting it as a narrative process with non-agentic meaning by distinguishing between distended and displaced temporal relations. Distended relations pertain to agency and biosemiosis, while displaced relations involve the meaning found not in the entity but the ...
2 days ago · This chapter of Paul Ricoeur’s 2004 book Memory, History, Forgetting explores the complex interplay between memory and forgetting, distinct from the topic of forgiveness. Forgetting is often seen as a threat to memory’s reliability, portraying memory as a battle against forgetting, as illustrated by Herodotus and the duty of memory.
2 days ago · The study of ritual plays a prominent role in (comparative) religious studies (Eliade, Otto, Van der Leeuw), in philosophy (ritual and symbol, Ricoeur), in anthropology and sociology (Durkheim, Turner), in psychology (Jung), and in cultural history (Huizinga). There was at this time remarkably little interest in ritual among theologians.
3 days ago · French philosophy opened up to German philosophy in the 1930s and to Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology during the Second World War. Existentialism was the main philosophical current until 1961, a year marked by Merleau-Ponty’s death. During the following twenty years, French philosophical life was dominated by what has been called ...
2 days ago · Ricoeur’s description of the sacral cosmos bears comparison with a passage in East Coker in which Eliot describes country people participating in an ancient celebration of the seasons, dancing around a bonfire in a circle (that purely conventional circle again, like the wedding ring!), “Keeping time, / Keeping the rhythm in their dancing / As in their living in the living seasons….” Perennial symbols such as the four seasons, the four elements, trees, and sky and mountains and sea ...
5 days ago · If we reintroduce the subject into the actor we can then measure, as Paul Ricœur did, the extent to which ethical reflection becomes the bearer of multiple capacities: the capacity to reflect, the capacity to act, the capacity to discuss, the capacity to judge and the capacity to know one’s limits.
3 days ago · 41 Richard Kearney, “Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutic Imagination,” Philosophy & Social Criticism 14:2 (1988): 115–145, 118. 42 Catherine Keller, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2003), 3.
