DESCRIPTION: Timo Helenius has taught philosophy and ethics at Boston College, Mount Ida College, and most recently at the University of New Brunswick. His research focuses on contemporary continental philosophy, particularly the work of Paul Ricoeur. His book Ricoeur, Culture, and Recognition: A Hermeneutic of Cultural Subjectivity was published by Lexington in 2016. Helenius is currently working on another book on the phenomenology of religious expression. In this essay, the author analyzes P. Ricoeur's philosophy of cultural objects as an alternative to M. Heidegger's hermeneutics of the ontopoetic origin of art, which remains clearly reticent in accepting a starting point based on the distinction between subject and object. After presenting Heidegger's poetics of being—which he calls ontopoetics—he explains how Ricoeur proposes a mythopoetic approach based on the concept of objectivity. The concept of the poetic work remains the main theme of the article, analyzed first from Heidegger's point of view and then from that of his rival Ricoeur. The author concludes that Ricoeur's proposal for a poetic-speculative revelation of what is remains strongly linked to the concept of objectivity, as well as to the concept of the work, while Heidegger's analysis gradually shifts from ergon to energeia, replacing the concept of the work with that of alethic struggle. “The constant art of interpretation is the highest work of the mind, which constantly combines the internal and the external, the speculative and the poetic, meaning and the world, while gently making man aware of his existence as existence and conveying to him the manner of his existence as a man full of possibilities” (p. 66).
Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Heidegger’s poetics of Being. 3. Ricoeur: The “signs of man” and works of art. 4. Thoughtful works, embodied Being, and expressive acts. 5. Λόγος: the communicative works of l’esprit. 6. Work: Ricoeur’s dialectics of discovering interpretation.
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