What is elegance? Is it a quality of movement or gesture? Or is it rather connected to the way someone dresses up? Can we think of an elegant object or an elegant speech? These questions point at the ambiguity elegance presents any person wanting to reflect on it. The Reconciled Body responds to this challenge by looking …
Ce livre aborde une série de problèmes situés à la charnière de l’imaginaire et de l’affectivité, qui poussent la notion de conscience dans ses retranchements ou la portent à ses limites. Il s’agit, avec Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty et Nicolas Grimaldi, de rendre compte d’expériences au sein desquelles la conscience semble se perdre en perdant …
Phenomenology has constantly dealt with history. Over a century and more, phenomenology has not only undergone a “historical turn” under the influence of Heidegger and his followers, but it has also faced the deep crisis of history brought up by the great disasters of the two World Wars, that altered the very manner of comprehending …
The fundamental aim of translation studies in general is to better understand the practice of translation. Insofar as hermeneutics can be regarded as an approach to understanding the nature of understanding itself (and in this it finds alliances with phenomenology), the task of this volume is to demonstrate that hermeneutics can accordingly provide a means …
L’herméneutique représente une sorte de fil rouge qui traverse la traductologie de Jean-René Ladmiral, mais qu’il n’avait pas encore complètement explicité à ce jour. Son discours théorique, tout en s’appuyant sur la pratique, fait référence principalement à des catégories linguistiques, philosophiques et psychologiques. En général, la dimension herméneutique de la traduction n’apparaît pas clairement comme …
Jane WILHELM, Jean-René LADMIRAL — Horizons interculturels de la traduction Read More »
This book investigates the importance of Ricœur’s hermeneutics of history and the role it plays in the recent philosophical reflections and debates on the past and its relationship to the present. The studies included here are primarily focused on Ricœur’s constant reluctance towards a complete and totalizing understanding of the meaning of history and his …
Paul MARINESCU — Ricœur’s Hermeneutics of History. Questioning the Riddle of the Past Read More »