Themes in Hermeneutical Phenomenology

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

 

Teaching Methods

- Presentations of conceptual framework and main thesis;

- Seminar (commenting selected texts)

- Practical working sessions with the presence of invited speakers.

 

Learning Outcomes

The curricular unit’s general objective is to study in detail the motives, implications and scope of the conversion of French hermeneutic phenomenology.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. M. Merleau-Ponty and the project of a phenomenology of perception: The shadow “of Husserl; The double obstacle of scientific realism and philosophical idealism; Archaeology of incarnated living in the wordl;The own body and the enigma of space.

2. Repercussions of the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty in the Works of P. Ricoeur.

2.1. The non-orthodox interpretation of phenomenology developed by Merleau- Ponty and the ricoeurian project of a phenomenology of will.

2.2. Description of the “I can” between the “tacit cogito” and the “complete cogito”.

3. P. Ricoeur between an aroused cogito and a humiliated cogito. First approach to the main concepts of Ricoeur’s

hermeneutic phenomenology: Disproportion; Fallibility; Evil; Symbol and interpretation; Conflict of interpretations.

4. The long way of the hermeneutics of the subject.

5. Ipseity, narrative and identity.

6. Hermeneutic phenomenology and psychotherapy: the contribution of phenomenology to a psychotherapeutic purpose.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Luísa Portocarrero Ferreira da Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The evaluation consists in the presentation of two reports (40%), and a written paper (tutorial) with discussion (60%): 100.0%

Bibliography

MERLEAU-PONTY, M., Phénoménologie de la perception, Gallimard, Paris, 1945.

RICOEUR, P. De l’interpretation. Essai sur Freud, Seuil, Paris, 1965.

RICOEUR, P. Le conflit des interprétations. Essais d’herméneutique, Seuil, 1969.

RICOEUR, P. Philosophie de la volonté 1. Le volontaire et l’involontaire, Aubier

Montaigne, Paris, 1950.

RICOEUR, P. Temps et récit I, Seuil, Paris, 1983

RICOEUR, P. Soi-même comme un autre, Seuil, Paris, 1990.