This thesis has attempted to examine Paul Riceoeur's work as a whole. Its aim has been to enquire whether the dialectics of difference and identity played any essential part in his hermeneutic phenomenology. The introduction gave an overall view of Ricoeur's writings situated within the contemporary landscape of French philosophy. Part I set out to study Ricoeur's abstract phenomenology. The results obtained showed : 1. That Ricoeur's philosophical background, especially Husserl's phenomenology and Marcel's existentialism, had a deep influence on him; 2. That his structural phenomenology of the will, developed from an imaginative combination of Husserl's epistemological method and Marcel's ontological vision, to constitute a framework towards the understanding of human nature; 3.That 'man's non-coincidence with himseIf' brought an existential distance within structural unity,thus leading to an abstract reflection upon the structures of human reality, and to the disclosure of a 'fault'. Part II enquired into the emergence of Ricoeur's hermeneutics, a turning point towards concrete phenomenology. This study demonstrated:1. That the 'same' of meaning could be reached only indirectly through the 'other' of signs, of symbols and myths calling for interpretation; 2. That such an 'other' had to be critically deciphered if it was to disclose the 'same' of consciousness; 3. That the structure of symbols, understood in terms of archaeology and teleology, explained the conflict of interpretations which, in turn, and when arbitrated, revealed a 'same'.Part III studied Ricoeur's concrete phenomenology of language and narrative. This discussion showed:1. That the hermeneutic circle of explanation and understanding was itself a dialectics of difference and identity, at the level of text and semantic innovation; 2. That identity could only be a narrated identity since man finds himself via the mediation of stories and histories. Thus, the conclusion must be drawn that the dialectics of difference and identity is the touchstone beneath Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology.

Proefschrift--Groningen--Rijksuniversiteit, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 215-217. Résumé en anglais.

This thesis’ task is to reinterpret Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy of the will, hermeneutics, and study of metaphor from a perspective that speaks to what his early work conceptualized as a poetics of freedom. Poetics, for Ricoeur, becomes a mode of expression capable of representing and illuminating what he considers the essential paradox of our human condition: a will that is both free and bound, “set free as freedom and responsible in its very deliverance.” A poetics of freedom, Ricoeur conceptualized in the beginning of his career, would be a mediation through which we perceive a tensional reconciliation of our conflicted natures, “a linguistic register suitable for speaking of liberated freedom and liberated man in his existential concreteness and totality.” Ricoeur, however, never developed the poetics of freedom beyond its original conceptualization. Through an interpretive analysis of Ricoeur's work, I reorient his later works on metaphor and hermeneutics towards the concerns that dominated the philosophy of the will and the existential philosophy to which it belongs. This study of Ricoeur’s philosophy of being occurs in discourse with a poetic text, Dante’s Commedia. The Commedia, I argue, is a text whose poetry explicitly and implicitly discloses the importance of hermeneutics and poetics in the arrival at self-understanding. The correlations that arise between its aesthetic discourse and Ricoeur’s contemporary perspective illuminate what I consider to be at the core of the philosophy of being: a primordial tension of selfhood conceptualized in terms of the dialectical relations that arise between freedom and nature, between objectivity and subjectivity, and between perspective and meaning; or in Dante’s terms, between my life and la nostra vita (our life).

This thesis’ task is to reinterpret Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy of the will, hermeneutics, and study of metaphor from a perspective that speaks to what his early work conceptualized as a poetics of freedom. Poetics, for Ricoeur, becomes a mode of expression capable of representing and illuminating what he considers the essential paradox of our human condition: a will that is both free and bound, “set free as freedom and responsible in its very deliverance.” A poetics of freedom, Ricoeur conceptualized in the beginning of his career, would be a mediation through which we perceive a tensional reconciliation of our conflicted natures, “a linguistic register suitable for speaking of liberated freedom and liberated man in his existential concreteness and totality.” Ricoeur, however, never developed the poetics of freedom beyond its original conceptualization. Through an interpretive analysis of Ricoeur's work, I reorient his later works on metaphor and hermeneutics towards the concerns that dominated the philosophy of the will and the existential philosophy to which it belongs. This study of Ricoeur’s philosophy of being occurs in discourse with a poetic text, Dante’s Commedia. The Commedia, I argue, is a text whose poetry explicitly and implicitly discloses the importance of hermeneutics and poetics in the arrival at self-understanding. The correlations that arise between its aesthetic discourse and Ricoeur’s contemporary perspective illuminate what I consider to be at the core of the philosophy of being: a primordial tension of selfhood conceptualized in terms of the dialectical relations that arise between freedom and nature, between objectivity and subjectivity, and between perspective and meaning; or in Dante’s terms, between my life and la nostra vita (our life).

Diss.--Roma--Pontificia università gregoriana, 2001. / Bibliogr. p. 379-395. Index.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Philosophie--Louvain--Université catholique, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 285-306. Index.

No se posee.

SANTOS, Jeriel Silva. Elementos constitutivos da textualidade aplicados à Teoria da Ação em Paul Ricoeur. 2008. 90f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia, Fortaleza (CE), 2008. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-10-06T16:08:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_dis_jssantos.pdf: 461178 bytes, checksum: e502da58961a515257ac751cf97e779d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-10-09T11:43:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_dis_jssantos.pdf: 461178 bytes, checksum: e502da58961a515257ac751cf97e779d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-09T11:43:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_dis_jssantos.pdf: 461178 bytes, checksum: e502da58961a515257ac751cf97e779d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Esta dissertação examina e expõe a reflexão de Paul Ricoeur relativa aos elementos constitutivos da textualidade e a aplicação destes componentes do texto à esfera do agir humano. A análise das proposições ricoeurianas toma como ponto de partida considerações históricas que descrevem a passagem das práticas interpretativas, vinculadas principalmente à exegese e à filologia, para uma hermenêutica de cunho verdadeiramente filosófica. Neste âmbito, examinamos o empenho de Schleiermacher em elevar o compreender além das regras particulares de interpretação; de Dilthey em incorporar ao ato hermenêutico a importância do encadeamento histórico para as ciências do espírito; de Heidegger em interpor ao procedimento epistemológico as condições ontológicas do próprio compreender; de Gadamer em demonstrar o acesso à verdade por vias não necessariamente objetivantes do conhecimento. Dessa crítica gadameriana aos pressupostos da ciência moderna, posta em termos do debate entre experiência de pertença e distanciamento alienante, Ricoeur faz sobressair a sua própria concepção, na qual a textualidade é demonstrada como paradigmática no que concerne à historicidade da experiência humana. Segundo as teses ricoeurianas a ação humana, assim como o texto, contém uma proposição de sentido que vai além da intenção de seu agente ou, no caso da escrita, do seu autor, e que poderá ser efetuada em um contexto diferente daquele em que foi criada originalmente.

A parábola (o mashal) da literatura rabínica é analisada nesta dissertação como uma narrativa metafórica. Pontua-se primeiramente os elementos básicos da teoria de Paul Ricoeur sobre a metáfora e os seus paralelos na concepção do mashal rabínico de Jonáh Fraenkel. Apresenta-se em seguida, por meio de um constante vai-e-vem entre os dois autores, e na base de cinco meshalim, os passos metodológicos desenvolvidos por Fraenkel: determinação do modelo de base, análise da trama da narrativa enquanto unidade completa, estabelecimento de correspondências entre mashal e nimshal. Valoriza-se então a extravagância da parábola que obriga a ir além do modelo de base da mesma. Desta forma, o mashal torna-se para os Sábios da literatura rabínica um meio de desvelar novos sentidos da Torá. Aponta-se enfim que o mashal se encontra em plena consonância com o mundo do Talmud-Torá por ser, antes de tudo, uma atividade e um questionamento, e por pertencer ao domínio da Torá Oral. Assim, ele pode e deve questionar a Torá Escrita. A harmonia de forma e conteúdo, e os diversos temas abordados no mashal, fazem também com que este fosse tão apreciado pelos Sábios nos seus ensinamentos. Por isso, intitulamos a parábola-metáfora que é o mashal rabínico de Talmud-Torá em miniatura. / The parable (the mashal) of rabbinical literature is analyzed in this dissertation as a metaphoric narrative. First, we point out the main elements of Paul Ricoeurs theory on metaphor and its parallels in Jonah Fraenkels conception of the rabbinical mashal. We then present, constantly considering both theoretical approaches and on the basis of five meshalim, the methodological steps developed by Fraenkel: determination of the basic model, analysis of the plot within the narrative considered as a complete unit, setting of correspondences betwenn mashal and nimshal. We then insist on the importance of the extravagance in the parable which requires to go beyond the basic model. The mashal becomes thus for the Sages of rabbinical literature a means to uncovering new meanings of the Torah. It is pointed out finally that the mashal is in full harmony with the world of Talmud-Torah, being primarily an activity and a questioning, and belonging to the realm of Oral Torah. Consequently, he can and should question the Written Torah. The harmony of form and content, and the various themes worked out in the mashal also explain why it was highly appreciated by the Sages in their teachings. Therefore, we call a Talmud-Torah in miniature the rabbinical mashal considered as a metaphorical narrative.

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