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'Rabelais’s laughter behind a portrait by Holbein':play and culture in the work of Johan Huizinga
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Horizons of expectation:Ricœur, Derrida, Patočka
No full textIn several texts, Paul Ricœur has developed different elaborationson the idea of a horizon of expectation: the horizon of tradition that shapesour perspectives, the horizon as a careful set of determinations of the future,the horizon as a divine call that comes from the future towards us. However,the connection of these three views on the horizon, together with the explic-itly Christian interpretation of the third horizon are problematic elements inRicœur’s thoughts on this topic. In this article his views are confronted withthe criticism of Jacques Derrida, who uses a quite different notion of horizon:an enclosing limit that dominates the understanding of what seems to fit in itscircle. Finally, in the philosophy of Jan Patočka, a view on the horizon and onhistory is found that gives valuable alternatives for the problematic elementsin Ricœur’s horizons of expectation, while leaving the convincing points of hisunderstanding of horizon intact