The inevitability of remembering and bringing Ricoeur from the basis of current society: the eminence of a hermeneutics of historical consciousness in the academy and... Daily

• Main Author: Alessandra Viegas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2015-04-01
• Series: Teoliterária: Revista Brasileira de Literaturas e Teologias
• Online Access: http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/teoliteraria/article/view/22930

Paul Ricoeur is passionate for life and society. This is not a matter of discussion, since one knows his trajectory, his fights and achievements which reflect wonderful multicolor prisms in his works. We can say that he is, and not that he was, because his essays of narrating the time that is today, the time of the narrative which is brought to our present perspective each moment while one narrates something, indicate a Ricoeur that is revived at different and new moments in which the reader exposes himself or herself in his presence, by narrating.<br />In Time and Narrative 3, based on his passion, one can find a text that inquires about the manner in which we have faced, as a society, our past and in which we expect to construct our future. In Towards a Hermeneutics of Historical Consciousness, Ricoeur presents a problem that reveals how humans are becoming something different than themselves while they “preterify” the past and leave the present without a tradition; it means that such a thought is equivalent to an absence of expectations and hopes about the future. This is the discussion of the text that follows. <br />