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Philosopher Paul Ricoeur wrote that the self is made through story. Not a fixed thing, but an unfolding—stitched together by time, memory, retelling. When you stop telling the story, the self begins to fade.

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Paul Ricoeur and the Task of Political Philosophy

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Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative and Imagination

Paul Ricoeur

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Ricoeur gives us a useful way to imagine new modes of relating the sacred to rationality.

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

He described modernity’s obsession with Machen —do/make—as the belief that only what we can build, manipulate, or produce is real. This becomes the default metaphysics of acceleration: faster iteration, more output, more control. But Ratzinger contrasts this with another mode of being: Verstehen and Stehen —to understand and to stand. That is, to s... See more

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Paul Ricoeur and the Task of Political Philosophy (Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur)

Greg S. Johnson

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In several places in the work, Ricœur draws broader philosophical conclusions from the more specific treatments of particular symbols or myths. It is in this context that the topic of revelation

Nicola Stricker • Paul Ricœur, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and the Question of Revelation (Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur)

Briefly, Ricoeur’s scheme develops the theory of narrative as a threefold structure: its prefiguration or the happening of eventful activity, its configuration as a narrative with a plot by historians among others, and its refiguration or resignification of the narrative in the imaginative transformation by writers, artists or popular culture.

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

The form of narrative addresses the human need to live in time, to express ‘historicality’, which refers to the urge to reach back into our past to change our future and see our life as a whole. Historicality, for Ricoeur, is the way we grasp our most basic potentialities as individuals and collectives by repetition or recollection that guides or s