Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Levinas vulnerability memory and narrative. Can vulnerability be narrated? (Ricoeur studies, vol 10, N°1, 2019) English version (original) (raw)
2019, Paul Ricœur and Emmanuel Levinas: vulnerability, memory and narration. Can vulnerability be narrated?
In Time and narrative then in Oneself as another Paul Ricoeur proposes a philosophy of personal and collective identity, through research on time and narrative. According to these books, emplotment would synthesize and reconcile the temporal discordance, experienced by a subject. The subject's fragmentation by the otherness of time could then define vulnerability. Our aim is to question this triad time-vulnerability-narrative thanks to the opposite positions of Emmanuel Levinas. Unlike Ricoeur, Levinas severely criticizes the idea of memory and narrative in order to respect the vulnerability of the other. Yet, the Ricoeurian analysis of the responsibility affirms the need for a capable and not dispossessed Self. From this point of view, Ricoeur helps us to question the limits set by Levinas to narrative and leads us to wonder if the ethical plot for the vulnerability of others doesn't need memory and narrative.
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