Original Affirmation, Self-Appropriation and Attestation: Three Main Concepts for a Hermeneutics of Reception in Paul Ricoeur

• Main Author: Beatriz Contreras Tasso
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli Studi di Cagliari 2017-12-01
• Series: Critical Hermeneutics
• Online Access: https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/ecch/article/view/3146

The hermeneutic widening of Paul Ricœur’s phenomenological philosophy determines a methodical turn inspired by a problem whose dominant nucleus is man as a capable subject. Nevertheless, this capacity must be deciphered by exploring the mediations in which man seeks to understand himself. The reading hypothesis of this study holds that reception, a topic of phenomenological origin, has a hermeneutic plasticity that gives Ricœur exploration keys of some essential knots of his onto-anthropology. The three main concepts through which the role of reception is evaluated make up original affirmation, self-appropriation and attestation. This examination highlights, finally, the unfolding of a hermeneutics which, in its mature stage, is marked by the endless reception of the other. This article is part of the following project: Proyecto de Investigación Fondecyt Regular N° 1160097