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Imagining a Life: On Imagination and Identity
No full textA reflective study on the role of imagination in constructing the subjective of self involves both the theme of the representation and that of the imagination as a common speculative practice. In this paper, the author will proceed from a speculative overview around the issue of personal identity to a hermeneutical analysis onto certain uses of imagination in some of the most recent scientific researches. The aim is to (re-)determine which anthropological(-philosophical) model should be regarded as better mirroring the current scientific advancements in recognising the function of imagination in personal identity determination. The author proposes here that Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy of the capable human being offers a productive approach to the dialectic of experience, imagination and self-representation in the human identity development. Ricoeur’s philosophical anthropology reveals the profound and constitutive intertwining between the mind and body, reality and imagination, self-representation and social interaction, relation and recognition
L'identità come esperienza narrativa: quale fondamento in Ricoeur?
No full textIn this paper, the author considers the narrative experience as a central element in the self-realization (i.e., the construction of personal identity). He analyses Ricœur’s phenomenological hermeneutics of the self and its fundamental theory of narrative identity as a key perspective in such a theorisation. It is shown that Ricœur’s notion of narrative identity is strongly philosophically founded, not in a weak aesthetic way, nor ‘psychologically’ (even if is deeply connected to the aesthetic experience and theory, and to Freud’s metapsychology)
Philosophy and Human Revolution: Essays in Celebration of Daisaku Ikeda’s 90th Birthday
No full textThis book collects a series of philosophical papers dedicated to the figure and work of Daisaku Ikeda. The author’s interest in studying Ikeda’s work is not to carry out a specialised or disciplinary study of his Buddhist exegesis, or to offer a critical synthesis from the point of view of its basic doctrinal contents and references, nor to examine his creed and religious teaching.
Beyond the fact that Ikeda’s work has the double face of a construction founded on a Japanese philosophical-religious tradition with specific links to classical Chinese tradition, interfaced with the globe’s most representative literary, scientific and speculative cultural products, it was developed according to an intercultural design strongly marked by western rationality and a spiritual-speculative-pragmatic approach to life and the world.
Throughout this book, the author proposes an agnostic suspension in order to leave a place for philosophy and its argumentative constructions
Perpetual Need for Human Sciences
Full text linkToday’s crisis of the human and social sciences is there for all to see. This is a complex problem resulting from an equally complex dynamism that implies the spirit of the times, the interests and values orientations which prevail today. We live in an era of materialism, an era of new paganism that institutionalizes the superiority of the natural sciences and naturalizing paradigms. This article tries to show how a certain philosophical approach can contribute, on the on hand, to the dialectical reorganization of the framework of sciences and knowledge and, on the other, to the recognition of the perpetual value of the human and social sciences
Book Review: Peter KEMP (2010) Sagesse pratique de Paul Ricoeur. Huit etudes [Paul Ricoeur's Practical Wisdom. Eight Studies]
No full textPeter Kemp – a member of the Institute of Philosophy and Education of the new Danish University of Education and director of the Copenhagen Centre for Ethics and Law – is one of the most important pupils of Paul Ricœur (1913–2005). In this book he brings together essays published between 1986 and 2006 that are linked by a common motif, one no doubt of Aristotelian origin: that of practical wisdom, which the author considers lies at the heart of Ricœurian hermeneutics, to the extent of constituting a fundamental characteristic of it.
The book adds a significant contribution to the interpretive debate around the work of Ricœur. It engages the task of the reconstruction and critical analysis of his thought, notably in relation to the essential concepts of his narrative hermeneutics and practical philosophy (as laid out in the three works of Ricœur’s maturity to which Kemp gives particular weight: Temps et Récit (1983–85) [trans. Time and Narrative (1984–88)], Soi-même comme un autre (1990) [trans. Oneself as Another (1992)] and Parcours de la Reconnaissance (2004) [trans. The Course of Recognition (2005)]. We are thus presented with a work of critical analysis in the form of a dialogue, revealing on the one hand the recognition by the pupil of what he owed to his master, and on the other the ambition to pursue his own personal path of scholarly research
Ricezione di Paul Ricœur in Italia. L’opera di Domenico Jervolino e il ruolo dell’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli
Full text linkStarting thematising Paul Ricoeur’s tardive recognition in France, the author examines in this paper the reception of Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical research in Italy and the role played by this Nation. He particularly focuses on the contribution offered by Domenico Jervolino and Naples’ Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (IISF). The perspective of a scholar emerges which both sustained as well as influenced Ricoeur’s work of research and realized in Naples one of the most important laboratories of study and research around different themes. He also generated an original, extraordinarily significant and actual philosophical perspective, that of a philosophy of translation
Lacan’s epistemic role in Ricœur’s re-reading of Freud
Full text linkIn this paper, the author reconsiders the role played by Lacan in Ricœur’s philosophy of psychoanalysis by reconstructing the history of the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy, and by focusing on some of the important aspects of the reception of Ricœur’s work in France. The reception of his work there is directly connected to Lacan’s School and the role played by his followers, who were against Ricœur. Some of the unpublished documents kept at the Fonds Ricœur should help to clarify some points in this regard. These documents should help to demonstrate how the incompatibility of Ricœur’s interpretation with Lacan’s structural perspective was further caused by their personal incompatibility and personal interests rather than by a bottomless theoretical distance
Telling a Life: Narration and Personal Identity
No full textIn recent decades, the theme of ‘narrative identity’ has seen a significant development in different disciplinary domains, both at a practical and interdisciplinary level. The issues connected to narrative identity have (re-)gained a central position not only in narratology and philosophy, but even in psychology and in different psychotherapeutic approaches. Several scholars agree with the idea that the psychological reality is narrative and that narration is a determinant of personal identity. Starting from a short overview on identity and narration in literature and narratology, this article aims to thematise the issue of narrative identity as the fulcrum of a scientific theorisation that operates between showing how the interrelationship between these two sciences is particularly productive in psychology as well as philosophy
Tra ragione e fede. Interventi buddisti
No full textSecondo l’insegnamento del monaco giapponese Nichiren Daishonin (1222-1282), lo spirito del Buddismo non vive al di fuori della realtà, si trova piuttosto in mezzo a essa, tra le sofferenze, le contraddizioni, i limiti e i problemi di noi persone comuni
Recensione a: Giuseppe Moccia e Luigi Solano (a cura di), "Psicoanalisi e neuroscienze. Risonanze interdisciplinari", Milano, FrancoAngeli (coll. Psicoanalisi contemporanea: sviluppi e prospettive) 2009
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