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Beyond Poststructuralism: The Critical Hermeneutical Philosophy of Paul Ricœur

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This chapter presents Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutical philosophy as a philosophical basis for business ethics and philosophy of management. Ricœur developed his hermeneutic philosophy in close interaction with les penseurs du soupçon: Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud. Moreover, Ricœur also agreed with Deleuze in his characterization of structuralism as transcendentalism without the subject. There are many similarities between the project of Ricœur and Deleuze’s critical philosophy of difference, in the sense that they both refuse a Hegelian dialectics of perfect mediations. Indeed, Derrida was one of Ricœur’s pupils and they had important discussions about the foundations of interpretation and metaphor as central to language and meaning. Ricœur was a persistent critic of poststructuralism, who built a hermeneutical ethics and political philosophy that takes the poststructuralist challenge seriously, while at the same reformulating a new hermeneutic philosophy beyond the poststructuralist project. This is, indeed, an important project that also has an impact on the foundations of business ethics, responsibility, and organization theory.

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  1. 1.

    Marie-Josée Potvin: “Ricoeur’s ‘Petitee éthique’: An Ethical Epistemological Perspective for Clinician–Bioethicists”, HEC Forum (2010) 22:311–326.

  2. 2.

    An earlier version of this chapter can be found in Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: “Critical Hermeneutics in Law and Politics”, in Lars Henrik Schmidt (red): Paul Ricœur in the Conflicts of Interpretations, Aarhus 1996. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1996, pp. 102–127. See also Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: “Business, society and the common good: The contribution of Paul Ricoeur” in H-C Bettignies & F Lépineux (eds), Business, globalization and the common good, Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 345–369.

  3. 3.

    Ricœur, Paul: Soi-même comme un Autre, Le Seuil, Paris 1990, p. 276.

  4. 4.

    Yvon Pesqueux: “Corporate governance and accounting systems: a critical perspective”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting 16 (2005), pp. 797–823.

  5. 5.

    Paul Ricœur: De L’interprétation, Le Seuil, Paris 1965, pp. 13–61.

  6. 6.

    Paul Ricœur: Du texte à l’action, Le Seuil, Paris 1987, p. 333ff.

  7. 7.

    Paul Ricœur: Soi-même comme un Autre, Le Seuil, Paris 1990, p. 362ff.

  8. 8.

    Paul Ricœur: Temps et récit I-III, Le Seuil, Paris 1985–1987, p. 300ff.

  9. 9.

    Steven Sonsino (2005): “Towards a Hermeneutics of Narrative Identity: A Ricoeurian Framework for Exploring Narratives (and Narrators) of Strategy”, Organization Management Journal, 2:3, pp. 166–182.

  10. 10.

    Michel Dion: “The moral discourse of banks about money laundering: an analysis of the narrative from Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical perspective”, Business Ethics: A European Review, Volume 21 Number 3 June 2012.

  11. 11.

    See in particular, Paul Ricœur: La symbolique du mal II, Aubier, Paris 1961, p. 21ff. See also Paul Ricœur: Le volontaire et l’involontaire I, Aubier, Paris 1947–48.

  12. 12.

    Paul Ricœur: Soi-même comme un Autre, Le Seuil, Paris 1990, p. 236.

  13. 13.

    Paul Ricœur: Du texte à l’action, Le Seuil, Paris 1987, p 393ff.

  14. 14.

    Paul Ricœur: Lectures 1, Le Seuil, Paris 1994, p. 17ff.

  15. 15.

    Ibid., p. 29.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., p. 18.

  17. 17.

    Ibid., p. 108.

  18. 18.

    Ibid., p. 19.

  19. 19.

    Paul Ricœur: Soi-même comme un Autre, Le Seuil, Paris 1990, p. 237ff.

  20. 20.

    John Rawls: Political Liberalism, Basel Blackwell, New York 1992.

  21. 21.

    Ricœur, Paul: Lectures 1, Le Seuil, Paris 1994, p. 106.

  22. 22.

    See Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: “Critical Hermeneutics in Law and Politics”, in Lars Henrik Schmidt (red): Paul Ricœur in the Conflicts of Interpretations, Aarhus 1996. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1996, pp. 102–127. See also Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: “Business, society and the common good: The contribution of Paul Ricœur” in H-C Bettignies & F Lépineux (eds), Business, globalization and the common good, Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 345–369.

  23. 23.

    Paul Ricœur: Lectures 1, Le Seuil, Paris 1994, p. 279ff.

  24. 24.

    Paul Ricœur: Du texte à l’action, Le Seuil, Paris 1987, p. 237ff.

  25. 25.

    Paul Ricœur: Soi-même comme un Autre, Le Seuil, Paris 1990, p. 281.

  26. 26.

    Paul Ricœur: Lectures 1, Le Seuil, Paris 1994, p. 266.

  27. 27.

    G.W.F. Hegel: Philosophie des Rechts (1818–1832), Reklam Ausgabe.

  28. 28.

    Paul Ricœur: Lectures 1, Le Seuil, Paris 1994, p. 19.

  29. 29.

    Paul Ricœur: Soi-même comme un Autre, Le Seuil, Paris 1990, p. 227ff.

  30. 30.

    Paul Ricœur: Lectures 1, Le Seuil, Paris 1994, p. 219.

  31. 31.

    Ibid., p. 132ff.

  32. 32.

    Ibid., p. 137.

  33. 33.

    John Francis McKernan and Katarzyna Kosmala MacLullich: Accounting, love and justice Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 17 No. 3, 2004, pp. 327–360.

  34. 34.

    Paul Ricœur: Lectures 1, Le Seuil, Paris 1994, p. 140.

  35. 35.

    Paul Ricœur: Soi-même comme un Autre, Le Seuil, Paris 1990, p. 291ff.

  36. 36.

    Ibid., p. 335ff.

  37. 37.

    Søren Juul: Recognition and judgement in social work, European Journal of Social Work, 2009, 12:4, pp. 403–417.

  38. 38.

    Paul Ricœur: Du texte à l’action, Le Seuil, Paris 1987, p. 237ff.

  39. 39.

    See the article L’acte de juger, Esprit, Juillet 1992.

  40. 40.

    Paul Ricœur: Lectures 1, Le Seuil, Paris 1994, p. 176.

  41. 41.

    Ibid., p. 192ff.

  42. 42.

    Paul Ricœur: Soi-même comme un Autre, Le Seuil, Paris 1990, p. 208ff.

  43. 43.

    Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: “Critical Hermeneutics in Law and Politics”, in Lars Henrik Schmidt (red): Paul Ricœur in the Conflicts of Interpretations, Aarhus 1996. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1996, pp. 102–127. See also Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: “Business, society and the common good: The contribution of Paul Ricoeur” in H-C Bettignies & F Lépineux (eds), Business, globalization and the common good, Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 345–369.

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Rendtorff, J.D. (2014). Beyond Poststructuralism: The Critical Hermeneutical Philosophy of Paul Ricœur. In: French Philosophy and Social Theory. Ethical Economy, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8845-8_8

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