Introduction: On the Proper Use of Phenomenology Paul Ricoeur Centenary
Introduction: On the Proper Use of Phenomenology Paul Ricoeur Centenary

Summary/Abstract: Paul Ricoeur devoted his intellectual life to rigorous philosophical thinking, while engaging in close dialogue with diff erent branches of the human sciences. He signifi cantly contributed to major debates of his time, not only by addressing an impressively wide range of topics, but also by proposing innovative approaches to various disciplines such as psychoanalysis, history, narratology, or semiotics. Th e centenary of Paul Ricoeur’s birth is thus an opportunity to celebrate, through the multiplicity of refl exive paths he set forth, the possibility of “philosophizing and continuing to do philosophy”. Upon closer examination of Ricoeur’s philosophical itinerary—which begins with a phenomenology of the will and ends with an extended phenomenology of what he calls “the capable human being”—it would be no overstatement to consider his philosophizing a “questioning of the destiny of phenomenology today”. Th is issue of Studia Phaenomenologica, celebrating the centenary of Paul Ricoeur’s birth, is an invitation to pursue the phenomenological paths of his work, an itinerary whose achievement implies two types of timing: the fi rst involves lingering over and insisting upon the source-texts of Ricoeur’s phenomenology, whereas the

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