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Paul Ricoeur: la sagesse de l'incertitude
Paul Ricoeur: The wisedom of uncertainty

Author(s): Jean Greisch
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: wisdom; uncertainty; phenomenology; hermeneutics; selfhood; otherness

Summary/Abstract: After the Second World War, Paul Ricoeur started his career teaching philosophy at the Collège Cévenol in the village of Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation dedicated to the phenomenological analysis of the voluntary and the involuntary. Borrowed from Milan Kundera, the paradoxical notion of ‘wisdom of uncertainty’, applied to Ricoeur’s work as a whole, highlights the specific features of his contribution to the development of hermeneutic philosophy in the 20th century.

  • Issue Year: III/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 475-490
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French