Ricoeur's Philosophy of Subjectivity at the Face of Foucauldian Genealogy of Power
Ricoeur's reflection on subjectivity, developing in a hermeneutical direction, breaks up with Husserl's transcendental approach to subjectivity. He proposes in Oneself as Another (Ricoeur, 1992), a self-explication combining a non-transcendentalist phenomenological approach with hermeneuti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Sophia
Year: 2025, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 555-566 |
| Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology
B Subjectivation B Psychoanalysis B Phenomenology of subjectivity B Hermeneutics of the subject B Politics |
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| Summary: | Ricoeur's reflection on subjectivity, developing in a hermeneutical direction, breaks up with Husserl's transcendental approach to subjectivity. He proposes in Oneself as Another (Ricoeur, 1992), a self-explication combining a non-transcendentalist phenomenological approach with hermeneutics and psychoanalysis. I argue that this new methodology can help Ricoeur to effectively respond to the challenge Foucault's thought presents to various phenomenological approaches to subjectivity. In the first part, I explain the reasons underlying Ricoeur's distancing himself from Husserl's Cartesian approach to subjectivity. In the second part, I focus on Foucault's genealogy of power underlying his rejection of the phenomenological approaches to subjectivity. In the last part, I discuss how Ricoeur conceives subjectivation via an eclectic approach that combines phenomenology with hermeneutics and psychoanalysis. Based on these three parts, I argue that Ricoeur's analysis can survive the Foucauldian critique. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-025-01061-1 |
