The Function of Interpretation in Shaping Reality. Paul Ricœur and the Hermeneutical Openings of his Phenomenology of Fiction. Cover Image

Funcția interpretării în modelarea realității. Paul Ricœur și deschiderile hermeneutice ale fenomenologiei ficțiunii
The Function of Interpretation in Shaping Reality. Paul Ricœur and the Hermeneutical Openings of his Phenomenology of Fiction.

Author(s): Ștefan Bârzu
Subject(s): Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Ontology
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: fiction; productive reference; spontaneity; hermeneutics; interpretation; imagination;

Summary/Abstract: In Paul Ricœur’s The Function of Fiction in Shaping Reality, there lies a powerful hypothesis with regards to the way in which fiction works beyond the aesthetic imagination, technically operating within all sciences – be they natural of social. This is done by working out a demystifyication of fiction from its antagonism with the mainstream epistemological claim from truth. Yet the implications go further, placing the fenomenology of fiction at the core of our bond with brute reality. On this basis, I seek in my paper to open up the problems of hermeneutics to this curious case of fiction, in order to theoreticize upon a inherent interpretative mechanism, spontaneity, within which meaning is no longer an epistemic category, but an ontological reality.

  • Issue Year: LXIX/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 87-93
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian