Testimony and Engagement: On the Four Elements of Witnessing

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Gert-Jan van der Heiden ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Basic Characteristic ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Paul Ricœur

In order to develop a hermeneutic-phenomenological analysis of testimony, this essay will first argue that testimony is “said in many ways” without being homonymous and that contemporary epistemological approaches to testimony are not capable of accounting for all paradigmatic forms of testimony. Second, it is argued, following and extending the work of Paul Ricoeur, that by emphasizing the sense of engagement or Bezogenheit as a basic characteristic of testimony, we may find another approach to testimony that offers a phenomenological alternative to the observational model of witnessing and the accompanying conception of testimony as report. Third, this approach is further developed and analyzed in terms of the four elements of testimony, namely, subject matter, witness, act of testifying, and addressee.

Not The Only Story: Narrative, Memory, and Self-becoming in Julian Barnes’ Novel

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Diana Melnic ◽  
Vlad Melnic
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Married Woman ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
Julian Barnes ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
To Come

"Not the Only Story: Narrative, Memory and Self-becoming in Julian Barnes’ Novel. Julian Barnes’s The Only Story depicts the affair of the narrator, Paul, with an older, married woman, Susan. Yet while the obvious subject matter may be trite, the writer’s treatment of it is noteworthy. More specifically, the present paper aims to explore the manner in which this story is remembered by the narrator. Using Paul Ricoeur’s work on the narrative self, we suggest that the protagonist does not wish to deliver an accurate account of the events that shaped his life, but rather he attempts to come to terms with the latter through storytelling. Thus, “the only story” is not necessarily that of Paul’s first love. It is, rather, the only story that matters to him, which must include all others and which he must tell in order to shape and understand his own process of becoming. Keywords: The Only Story, Julian Barnes, Paul Ricoeur, memory, storytelling, self-becoming, identity "

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>

Los criterios de textualidad en la hermenéutica de Paul Ricoeur. Un análisis crítico

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Bertorello
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Material Base ◽  
The World ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Text Writing ◽  
The Way

RESUMENEl trabajo examina críticamente la afirmación central de la hermenéutica de Paul Ricoeur, a saber, que el soporte material de la escritura es el rasgo determinante para que una secuencia discursiva sea considerada como un texto. La escritura cancela las condiciones fácticas de la enunciación y crea, de este modo, un ámbito de sentido estable en el que se puede validar una concepción de la subjetividad que está implicada en las dos estrategias de lecturas (el análisis estructural y la apropiación), esto es, un sujeto pasivo que se constituye por la idealidad del significado. Asimismo, el trabajo intentará precisar una serie de ambigüedades en el uso que Ricoeur hace del «ser en el mundo» para sostener la referencialidad del discurso.PALABRAS CLAVETEXTO, ESCRITURA, REFERENCIA, SUBJETIVIDAD, MUNDOABSTRACTThis paper critically examines the main assertion of Paul Ricoeur´s hermeneutics, i.e., that the material base of writing is the determining feature to consider a discursive sequence as a text. Writing cancels the factual conditions of enunciation and creates, in this way, a background of stable meaning where it is possible to validate a conception of subjectivity implicated in the two reading strategies (the structural analysis and the appropriation), i.e., a passive subject constituted by the ideality of meaning. Likewise, this paper aims to clarify some ambiguities in the way Ricoeur uses the «beings in the world» to support the discourse referentiality.KEY WORDSTEXT, WRITING, REFERENCE, SUBJECTIVITY, WORLD

PAUL RICOEUR UM OLHAR DE SEUS LEITORES

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsio José Corá ◽  
Cláudio Reichert do Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur

Linguagem Simbólica e Racionalidade (profética): Um Retorno Filosófico à Religião à Luz de Ricoeur e Lévinas

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Elvis De Oliveira Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur

É possível um retorno filosófico à religião?  A fim de tentar refletir acerca dessa difícil questão, o presente estudo pretende focar-se no confronto com os desafios do fenômeno religioso que se configura na contemporaneidade, tomando como ponto de referência o encontro entre as contribuições do pensamento filosófico de Paul Ricoeur – que recupera a textualidade da expe-riência religiosa e a fecundi-dade do pensamento ético-filosófico de Emmanuel Lévinas que, por sua vez, propõe o retorno à ética encontrada na tradição talmúdica, a fim de repensar o fenômeno religioso na atualidade.

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