Shadows of the Past: Phantoms of the Negative and Traces of the Affective
Originally presented in 2013, the centenary year of Paul Ricoeur’s birth, this ISRLC Annual Lecture proposed the creation of a new picture of affective memory. After his death in 2005, Ricoeur could be read differently. He had shown us how to elevate self-affection to a new level of symbolic underst...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Literature and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 4, Pages: 371-388 |
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| Summary: | Originally presented in 2013, the centenary year of Paul Ricoeur’s birth, this ISRLC Annual Lecture proposed the creation of a new picture of affective memory. After his death in 2005, Ricoeur could be read differently. He had shown us how to elevate self-affection to a new level of symbolic understanding. Instead of merely accepting life’s inevitable march towards death, he uncovers affective traces, which survive and increase the intuitive power of memory. His symbols, which ‘give rise to thought’, are deepened and developed in his Deleuze-informed encounter with Bergson and Proust on memory. Living up to a new future, Ricoeur overcomes the ghost of Hegel, which haunts as a phantom of the negative, and allows shadows of the past to give way: to ‘the affirmation and the difference in the affirmation’. Thus Deleuze has, for Ricoeur, replaced the negative with the difference that makes all the difference. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fru059 |