Paul ricoeur Text and Interpretation 1. What is a text? a."A text is any discourse fixed in writing. "Ricoeur, 1981a, p145) b. Fixation enables the speech to be conserved, i.e. durability ofter c. A text"divides the act of writing and the act of reading into two sides, between which there is no communication. The text thus produces a double eclipse of the reader and the writer."(Ricoeur, 1981a, p 146-47
6 Paul Ricoeur’s Text and Interpretation 1. What is a text? a. “A text is any discourse fixed in writing.” (Ricoeur, 1981a, p.145) b. Fixation enables the speech to be conserved, i.e. durability of text c. A text “divides the act of writing and the act of reading into two sides, between which there is no communication. … The text thus produces a double eclipse of the reader and the writer.” (Ricoeur, 1981a, p.146-47)
From Text to Action Essays in Hermeneutics, Il PAUL RICOEUR
Paul ricoeur's Text and Interpretation 2. Distanciations in the text a. Text as language event/speech act o Distanciation between language event(i.e. discourse) and meaning 2 Articulation of meaning in language event is"the core of the whole hermeneutic problem. ( Ricoeur, 198la, p 134)
8 Paul Ricoeur’s Text and Interpretation 2. Distanciations in the text: a. Text as language event/speech act Distanciation between language event (i.e. discourse) and meaning Articulation of meaning in language event is “the core of the whole hermeneutic problem.” (Ricoeur, 1981a, p. 134)
Paul ricoeur's Text and Interpretation 2. Distanciations in the tert b. Text as work o Distanciation between text as"work and its authors'intention e "Hermeneutics remains the art of discerning the discourse in the work; but this discourse is only given in and through the structures of the work. Thus interpretation is the reply to the fundamental distanciation constituted by the objectification of man in work of discourse, an objectification comparable to that expressed in the products ofhis labourand his art. (Ricoeur, 198la, P. 138)
9 Paul Ricoeur’s Text and Interpretation 2. Distanciations in the text: b. Text as work Distanciation between text as “work” and its authors’ intention “Hermeneutics remains the art of discerning the discourse in the work; but this discourse is only given in and through the structures of the work. Thus interpretation is the reply to the fundamental distanciation constituted by the objectification of man in work of discourse, an objectification comparable to that expressed in the products of his labour and his art.” (Ricoeur, 1981a, P. 138)
Paul ricoeur's Text and Interpretation 2. Distanciations in the text c. Distanciation between the act of writing and the act of reading o Distanciation between the intention ofthe author and the interpretation of the reader @"The text must be able to..'decontextualise'itselfin such a way that it can be recontextualise in a new situation-as accomplished. by the act ofreading. Ricoeur, 198la, p. 139)
10 Paul Ricoeur’s Text and Interpretation 2. Distanciations in the text: c. Distanciation between the act of writing and the act of reading Distanciation between the intention of the author and the interpretation of the reader “The text must be able to… ‘ decontextualise’ itself in such a way that it can be ‘recontextualise’ in a new situation – as accomplished…by the act of reading.” (Ricoeur, 1981a, p. 139)