M.Phil. / This study is undertaken against the backdrop of the "narrativistic turn" in the human sciences. While narratives were traditionally regarded as the terrain of literary studies, it has increasingly become a focus in various disciplines since the 1970s. The usefulness of the concept "narrative identity" is investigated as a means to deal with the problematization of the subject (and personal identity) in postmodern thought. The influence of 20th Century language theory and constructionism on the problematization of the subject is also discussed. It is argued that the self (and personal identity) can not be regarded as a pre-existing subject that simply finds expression in narratives (as sometimes happens in narrative therapy). Such a view would presuppose a pre-linguistic cogito. The self (and personal identity) is not readily available for examination by the self. From a hermeneutical point of view, the self is always an interpretation. Paul Ricoeur's discussion of "narrative identity" is used tot discuss the processes of identity construction in self-narratives. The way in which a "narrative identity" is constructed in a self-narrative is examined with reference to Karel Schoeman's autobiography (Die laaste Afrikaanse boek – literally "The Last Afrikaans Book"). An autobiography is a representation of a life in which a subject is self-consciously constructing an identity. This specific autobiography makes explicit, self-conscious use of literary devices and refers to literary texts which makes it possible to examine the influence of fiction on self-narratives. In the process of this study it is demonstrated that insights provided by literary studies could contribute to narrative psychology and in this sense it is demonstrated that the strict boundaries that often exist between disciplines could be dissolved. Various ways by which the study of literature could contribute to the expansion of the hermeneutical basis on which individuals base their self-narratives, and the spin-offs for narrative therapy, is the most important result of the study. Some gains of narratology (within literary analysis) for narrative therapy are also examined.

This essay examines the madness portrayed in Selma Lagerlöf’s The Emperor of Portugallia and Olivier Bourdeauts Waiting for Bojangles, in order to identify a conceptual apparatus describing its interaction with the social ordering of reality, using the theoretical concepts of utopia and heterotopia. The concept of utopia used for this essay is the definition formed by Paul Ricoeur and the concept of heterotopia created by Michel Foucault. The examination is carried out by comparing both of the fictive portraits of madness against first Ricoeurs three-legged utopia and secondly against Foucault’s definition of heterotopia. A conclusion is made that the fictive portrait of madness in these two texts generates heterotopias based on utopian fantasies the characters have for their respective existences.

In the Swedish curriculum there is uncertainty today, regarding the purpose of the subject of religious studies on a highschool level. A question exists whether students should merely be learning about religions or if they should, in addition, also learn from said religions. The origin of these two options to religious education can be traced back to at least to the writings of Michael Grimmitt, a British philosopher of religion, and to the debate he sparked in the 1980s. The Swedish curriculum does not use the language of Grimmitt and is rather vague when it takes a stance regarding these two possibilities, though it leans heavily on the idea that Swedish highschool students should just learn about religion. Due to the vagueness of the current curriculum, the document is unable to answer the presented question. This essay intends to find an answer between these two choices to religious education. This will be done through the methods of reflective equilibrium, as defined by the philosopher John Rawls. By looking at which of the two options is the most compatible with the curriculum as a whole, an answer will be presented as to which approach is to be preferred. The result of the study is that it is not enough for students to just learn about religion and changes should be done to the curriculum. How such a change should be designed remains, however, unanswered.

Cette thèse propose une contribution théorique et méthodologique pour l’étude de la constitution de l’identité dans les organisations. Elle présente le développement d’une conceptualisation originale du problème de la durée des identités, qui s’incarne à travers la tension stabilité-changement. L’identité, vue soit comme une réalité qui évolue au fil des changements, ou alors comme quelque chose qui perdure, est abondamment étudiée en communication organisationnelle. En effet, plusieurs auteurs mettent l’accent sur la dimension performative de l’identité au détriment de sa dimension stable et fixe. Je propose, dans cette thèse, que ces deux dimensions de l’identité sont l’objet d’une tension dialectique, et que la configuration et l’interprétation de narratifs identitaires par les individus en interaction permet d’effectuer la médiation entre ces deux aspects de l’identité (Ricoeur, 1990). La thèse s’efforce de montrer que la mise en tension des dimensions temporelles de l’identité permet par ailleurs de regarder la construction concomitante des identités personnelles, collectives et de l’organisation. À partir d’une méthode d’analyse élaborée à partir de la théorie de l’identité narrative de Paul Ricoeur (1990) et inspirée de l’analyse de conversation, je réalise une étude minutieuse de narratifs identitaires produits lors d’entrevues de groupe. Cette méthode a permis d’analyser simultanément et comme un tout le contenu textuel des narratifs ainsi que leur performance en contexte. Les données analysées proviennent d’un travail de recherche de terrain que j’ai réalisé en 2007 et 2008 auprès des employés de la division québécoise de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada. / This dissertation makes theoretical and methodological contributions to questions of identity construction in organizations. It does so by developing an original conceptualization of the problem of temporal dimensions of identity, made visible through the dialectical tension between stability and change. In the organizational communication literature, identity is either seen as something that evolves or as something that is stable through time. For instance, many authors adopt a performative stance to study identity, which makes it difficult to take into consideration fixity of identity. I postulate that these two dimensions of identity are in a dialectical tension and that the process of configuration and interpretation of narratives makes their mediation possible. Moreover, I demonstrate that keeping in tension temporal dimensions of identity through narratives makes it possible to study the concomitant construction of individual, collective and organizational identities. Using an analytical method drawn from Ricoeur’s theory of narrative identity (Ricoeur, 1995) as well as inspired by conversation analysis, I analyzed data drawn from group interviews with employees of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police conducted in 2007 and 2008. This method allowed me to simultaneously analyze textual and contextual aspects of identity narratives

Cette thèse propose une contribution théorique et méthodologique pour l’étude de la constitution de l’identité dans les organisations. Elle présente le développement d’une conceptualisation originale du problème de la durée des identités, qui s’incarne à travers la tension stabilité-changement. L’identité, vue soit comme une réalité qui évolue au fil des changements, ou alors comme quelque chose qui perdure, est abondamment étudiée en communication organisationnelle. En effet, plusieurs auteurs mettent l’accent sur la dimension performative de l’identité au détriment de sa dimension stable et fixe. Je propose, dans cette thèse, que ces deux dimensions de l’identité sont l’objet d’une tension dialectique, et que la configuration et l’interprétation de narratifs identitaires par les individus en interaction permet d’effectuer la médiation entre ces deux aspects de l’identité (Ricoeur, 1990). La thèse s’efforce de montrer que la mise en tension des dimensions temporelles de l’identité permet par ailleurs de regarder la construction concomitante des identités personnelles, collectives et de l’organisation. À partir d’une méthode d’analyse élaborée à partir de la théorie de l’identité narrative de Paul Ricoeur (1990) et inspirée de l’analyse de conversation, je réalise une étude minutieuse de narratifs identitaires produits lors d’entrevues de groupe. Cette méthode a permis d’analyser simultanément et comme un tout le contenu textuel des narratifs ainsi que leur performance en contexte. Les données analysées proviennent d’un travail de recherche de terrain que j’ai réalisé en 2007 et 2008 auprès des employés de la division québécoise de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada. / This dissertation makes theoretical and methodological contributions to questions of identity construction in organizations. It does so by developing an original conceptualization of the problem of temporal dimensions of identity, made visible through the dialectical tension between stability and change. In the organizational communication literature, identity is either seen as something that evolves or as something that is stable through time. For instance, many authors adopt a performative stance to study identity, which makes it difficult to take into consideration fixity of identity. I postulate that these two dimensions of identity are in a dialectical tension and that the process of configuration and interpretation of narratives makes their mediation possible. Moreover, I demonstrate that keeping in tension temporal dimensions of identity through narratives makes it possible to study the concomitant construction of individual, collective and organizational identities. Using an analytical method drawn from Ricoeur’s theory of narrative identity (Ricoeur, 1995) as well as inspired by conversation analysis, I analyzed data drawn from group interviews with employees of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police conducted in 2007 and 2008. This method allowed me to simultaneously analyze textual and contextual aspects of identity narratives

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-02-19T12:43:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1245396 bytes, checksum: a1ecc307325da2e0c864335f93e5799b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-19T12:43:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1245396 bytes, checksum: a1ecc307325da2e0c864335f93e5799b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-16 / This thesis has as its goal to study the problem of evil through literature with the aid of the literary philosophical hermeneutics. In order to develop this theme, in first place, we seek to localize this study within the religion studies. We propose that hermeneutics can be a mediator among philosophy, theology, religion studies, and their respective approaches to religion. Next, we present exemplary how the discussions of philosophy, theology, and religion studies occur inside literature. We show also, briefly, how the problem of evil is placed as a theme of interest for philosophy and theology. At the end of this part, we present C. S. Lewis, the author whose work Out of the Silent Planet is the object of our study, and we expose the methodology of this thesis. In the second chapter, we discuss panoramically the problem of evil in philosophy and theology. Then, we present a panel with the major studies that examine the interface between the problem of evil and the works of C. S. Lewis. At the end of the chapter, we list the main categories/aspects of the problem of evil which are articulated in the apologetic approach of Lewis in The Problem of Pain, and that echoes in the fictional narrative of our object of study. The main categories/aspects of the problem of evil, which relate to the first volume of the Space Trilogy are: divine omnipotence, the fall of man, the human pain and the animal pain. In order to study the problem of evil in the literature, we seek in the literary philosophical hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur a model of analysis. We abstract from the work Time and Narrative the Ricoeurian triple mímesis as an itinerary for the study of Out of the Silent Planet. At last, we apply the resulting model to the analysis of the first volume of the C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy. In mímesis I, we study the fiction environment and the characters of the story. In mímesis II, we locate the chapter in the work where the narrative can be seen as a whole. Then, we describe how the categories/aspects of the problem of evil are articulated in this part of Out of the Silent Planet, we verify how the narrative shares elements of the literature body of the time in which it was produced, and how it breaks from this tradition. In mímesis III, we approach the values and the ethical practical implications that can be verified in the reading of the book. C. S. Lewis proposes in his narrative a theodicy from a theist Christian standpoint, using fiction to transmit his way of understanding the problem of evil and its implications. / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo estudar o problema do mal através da literatura com o auxílio da hermenêutica filosófica literária. Para desenvolver esse tema, em primeiro lugar, buscamos localizar este estudo dentro das ciências das religiões. Propomos que a hermenêutica pode ser uma mediadora entre filosofia, teologia, ciências das religiões e suas respectivas abordagens à religião. Depois, apresentamos exemplarmente como as discussões da filosofia, da teologia e das ciências das religiões ocorrem dentro da literatura. Mostramos também, brevemente, como o problema do mal se coloca como tema de interesse para a filosofia e para a teologia. No final da primeira parte, introduzimos C. S. Lewis, o autor cuja a obra Além do planeta silencioso é o objeto do nosso estudo e expomos a metodologia dessa dissertação. No segundo capítulo, discutimos panoramicamente o problema do mal na filosofia e na teologia. Em seguida, apresentamos um painel com os principais estudos que examinam a interface entre o problema do mal e as obras de C. S. Lewis. Ao final do capítulo, elencamos as principais categorias/aspectos do problema do mal que são articuladas na abordagem apologética de Lewis em O problema do sofrimento e que ecoam na narrativa ficcional do nosso objeto de estudo. As principais categorias/aspectos do problema do mal que se relacionam com o primeiro volume da Trilogia cósmica são: a onipotência divina, a queda do homem, o sofrimento humano e o sofrimento animal. Para estudar o problema do mal na literatura, buscamos na hermenêutica filosófica literária de Paul Ricoeur um modelo de análise. Abstraímos da obra Tempo e narrativa a tríplice mimese ricoeuriana como roteiro para o estudo de Além do planeta silencioso. Por fim, aplicamos o modelo resultante à análise do primeiro volume da Trilogia cósmica de C. S. Lewis. Em mímesis I, estudamos a ambientação da ficção e os personagens da história. Em mímesis II, localizamos o capítulo da obra onde a narrativa pode ser vista como um todo. Então, descrevemos como as categorias/aspectos do problema do mal são articuladas nessa parte de Além do planeta silencioso, verificamos como a narrativa compartilha elementos do corpo literário da época em que foi produzida e como ela rompe com essa tradição. Em mímesis III, abordamos os valores e as implicações éticas práticas que podem ser verificadas na leitura do livro. C. S. Lewis propõe em sua narrativa uma teodiceia desde um ponto de vista teísta cristão, utilizando-se da ficção para transmitir sua maneira de entender o problema do mal e suas implicações.

Die Arbeit geht einem Rezeptionsgeschehen zwischen Theologie und Philosophie im 20.Jahrhundert nach, das nach dem Verhältnis von Sprache und Wirklichkeit fragt. Rudolf Bultmanns Kerygma und Martin Heideggers Ereignis versuchen zu beschreiben, wie Sprache auf die Wirklichkeit und die Existenz wirkt. Ernst Fuchs und Gerhard Ebeling gehen in ihrer Hermeneutischen Theologie von einer christologischen Verhältnisbestimmung aus: Weil Gott im Wort wirkt, ist der Mensch sprachlich bestimmt. Ihr Konzept Wortgeschehen verbindet die sprachliche mit der existentialen Ebene, um das Wort Gottes als dynamisch und rechtfertigend wirkmächtig zu interpretieren. Der Philosoph Paul Ricœur rezipiert diese theologische Verhältnisbestimmung. Er versucht mit seiner Hermeneutik des Symbols, der Metapher und des Textes, existentiale Strukturen und Wirkweisen von Sprache zu beschreiben und setzt sich dazu auch mit dem Wortgeschehen auseinander. Allerdings weist Ricœurs Rezeption des theologischen Konzeptes auf strukturelle und hermeneutische Probleme hin. Ricœurs eigener Entwurf eines hermeneutischen Prozesses bezieht Struktur und Bedeutung des Textes, sowie Kritik und Glaube des Verstehenden in den Interpretationsvorgang ein und öffnet sich für bibelhermeneutische Überlegungen. Der Philosoph Ricœur wird daher theologisch vielfach rezipiert. Eine konkrete Schnittstelle stellt die Gleichnisdiskussion ab den 1970er Jahren dar, an der Ricœur sich beteiligt und in der seine Hermeneutik theologisch rezipiert wird. Gleichzeitig vertieft diese Diskussion das Konzept Wortgeschehen, weil sie sprachliche Mechanismen und deren existentiale Wirkung genauer beschreibt. Nachdem das Wortgeschehen philosophisch wie theologisch weiterentwickelt wurde, erweist es sich in der Frage nach einer Hermeneutik des Wortes Gottes als dienliches Konzept, weil es die sprachliche Ebene des Wortes Gottes mit hermeneutischen und theologischen Begründungen seiner existentialen Wirkung verbindet. / This dissertation investigates a mutual reference between theology and philosophy in the 20th century dealing with the issue of the relation between language and reality. Rudolf Bultmann‘s Kerygma and Martin Heidegger‘s Ereignis try to describe, how language effects reality and existence. In their Hermeneutical Theology, Ernst Fuchs and Gerhard Ebeling define a christological relation: Because God acts through the word, human existence is defined through language. Their concept Wortgeschehen relates linguistic to existential layers of meaning in order to interpret the word of God as dynamic and justifying. The philosopher Paul Ricœur refers to this theological relation. In his hermeneutics of symbols, metaphors and texts, he tries to describe existential structures and effects of language and concerning this question also discusses the Wortgeschehen. Yet, Ricœur‘s reference to the theological concept points out structural and hermeneutical problems. Ricœur‘s own concept of a hermeneutic process integrates structure and meaning of a text, as well as the critical and faithful understanding into the process of interpretation. His position is open for hermeneutics of the Bible. Thus, there are several theological references to the philosopher. The discussion on parables in the 1970s represents a concrete intersection of both disciplines, involving Ricœur and the theological reception of his hermeneutics. At the same time the discussion elaborates the concept Wortgeschehen describing language mechanisms and existential effects more precisly. Through its continuing philosophical and theological development the Wortgeschehen proves a helpful concept concerning the question of hermeneutics of the word of God, because it connects the linguistic layer of the Word of God to hermeneutic and theological reasons of its existential effect.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:19:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 vitor souza2.pdf: 2101245 bytes, checksum: 214591feb6d6907cb11972a37f74bb2d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research intends to demonstrate the theme of religion in the thought of Paul Ricoeur. It correlates philosophy and theology having in the question of God the main problem. The hypothesis of the thesis argues that the intersection of the ar-eas is productive and an original work of thought can arises from this cross. The thesis suggests the term of the fold of religion, considering the task of recogni-tion of the self within broken ontology. The reflective philosophy articulates the aporias with the ontology of the possible in existential categories, especially in terms of religious language, hope and the aporia of grace. The research utilizes the phenomenological and hermeneutical method, and it is divided into four stages: at first, introduces the relationship between philosophy and theology and the divine name as the first fold of religion. The second chapter deals with time, narrative, and the myth-poetic. The third chapter deals with the metaphorical in-terpretation of religion within the ontology of the possible. The fourth and final chapter presents the existential fold whose movement is as a philosophical spiral in the life of Ricoeur. The research is concluded on the horizon of the capable human being and the recognition of the self mediated by the fold of religion. The result will be a reflection that makes possible a better understanding of the philosophy of Ricoeur, as well as foundation for future studies on the philoso-phy of religion. / Esta pesquisa propõe-se a tematizar a religião no pensamento de Paul Ricoeur. Correlaciona filosofia e teologia e tem na nomeação de Deus o primeiro pro-blema. Ao analisar os limites do assunto, a hipótese da tese sustenta que a inter-secção das áreas é produtiva e que um trabalho original de pensamento pode vir deste cruzamento. A tese sugere o termo da dobra da religião, tendo em vista a apropriação da tarefa do reconhecimento do si na ontologia quebrada. O desdo-bramento das aporias, pela filosofia reflexiva, articula a ontologia do possível nas categorias existenciais do autor, sobretudo em termos da linguagem religio-sa, da esperança e da aporia da graça. A pesquisa é feita com base no método fenomenológico e hermenêutico, dividido em quatro etapas: num primeiro mo-mento, introduz-se a relação da filosofia com a teologia e o teônimo como a primeira dobra da religião. No segundo capítulo, aborda-se a importância tempo-ralidade e a narratividade na mito-poética. O terceiro capítulo versa sobre a in-terpretação metafórica da religião na ontologia do possível. O quarto e último capítulo apresenta a dobra existencial cujo movimento se dá como um espiral fi-losófico na própria vida de Ricoeur. A pesquisa é concluída no horizonte do ser humano capaz e o reconhecimento de si mediado pela dobra da religião. Espera-se que o resultado seja uma reflexão que permita uma melhor compreensão da filosofia de Ricoeur, bem como que sirva de referencial e fundamento para fu-turos estudos acerca da filosofia da religião.

It is a study of the imperfect mediation in Paul Ricoeur. We hold the view that the ricoeurian thought is articulated based on the notion of imperfect mediation, partial and finite, especially in distinction to the mediation of Hegelian sense is defined in absolute terms. Sustaining this thesis implies on the one hand, to rebuild some internal aspects to the work of Ricoeur, notably that qualify as the three Hegelian temptations, namely: the absolute temptation in the Spirit, in history and in the state. Otherwise, implies examine some theses that prescribe solutions contrary to ours. One is the thesis that defends the unity of Ricoeur's work based on the symbol of paradigms, text and translation; the other is defending the unity of his work around the symbol. In contrast, we understand that symbol, text and translation are but different ways of renouncing all forms of full mediation. In addition, the results we seek to ensure that the imperfect, open and fragmentary mediation remains an uninterrupted dialectic that articulates the self with the other, the identity with otherness. / Trata-se de um estudo sobre a mediação imperfeita em Paul Ricoeur. Sustentamos a tese de que o pensamento ricoeuriano se articula com base na noção de mediação imperfeita, parcial e finita, principalmente em distinção à mediação de sentido hegeliana que se define em termos absolutos. Sustentar tal tese implica, de um lado, em reconstruir alguns aspectos internos à obra de Ricoeur, notadamente o que qualificamos como as três tentações hegelianas, a saber: a tentação do absoluto no Espírito, na História e no Estado. De outro modo, implica em examinar algumas teses que prescrevem soluções contrárias a nossa. Uma delas é a tese que defende a unidade da obra de Ricoeur com base nos paradigmas do símbolo, texto e tradução; a outra é a que defende a unidade de sua obra em torno do símbolo. Contrariamente, entendemos que símbolo, texto e tradução não são mais que diferentes formas de renunciar a toda e qualquer forma de mediação total. Além disso, entre os resultados procuramos assegurar que a mediação imperfeita, aberta e fragmentária se mantém numa dialética ininterrupta que articula o si-mesmo com o outro, a identidade com a alteridade.