Ricoeur and Foucault: Between Ontology and Critique
In this paper, I trace some of Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault in his major works on historiography, and evaluate them. I find that Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault’s archaeological project in Time and Narrative are not particularly worrisome, and that Foucault’s “critical” project actually provide...
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doaj-87bf61e27baa4e3ab42025c3a70980302020-11-24T22:53:28ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghÉtudes Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies2156-78082014-01-01429010710.5195/errs.2013.16074Ricoeur and Foucault: Between Ontology and CritiquePatrick Gamez0University of Notre DameIn this paper, I trace some of Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault in his major works on historiography, and evaluate them. I find that Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault’s archaeological project in Time and Narrative are not particularly worrisome, and that Foucault’s “critical” project actually provides alternatives for enriching and expanding on some of Ricoeur’s later insights in Memory, History, Forgetting and – in particular – for troubling the distinction made between critique and ontology.http://ricoeur.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ricoeur/article/view/160Foucault, critique, ontology, history, historiographyFoucaulthistoryhistoriographycritiqueontology |
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Ricoeur and Foucault: Between Ontology and Critique |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh |
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Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies |
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In this paper, I trace some of Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault in his major works on historiography, and evaluate them. I find that Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault’s archaeological project in Time and Narrative are not particularly worrisome, and that Foucault’s “critical” project actually provides alternatives for enriching and expanding on some of Ricoeur’s later insights in Memory, History, Forgetting and – in particular – for troubling the distinction made between critique and ontology. |
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Foucault, critique, ontology, history, historiographyFoucault history historiography critique ontology |
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