The Role of Imagination in Paul Ricoeur’s Memory, History, Forgetting
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Several interpreters have recognized the importance of productive imagination in Ricoeur’s work, but most of them have focused their research on his works of the seventies and eighties. I want to argue that imagination has also a central role in Memory, History, Forgetting. My hypothesis is that this notion articulates the different moments of the work, mainly those related to phenomenology of memory and epistemology of history. I also wish to relativize the argument that after Time and Narrative Ricoeur emphasized synthetic imagination, by showing the presence of free imagination in Memory, History, Forgetting.
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