GESCHEHEN AND NARRATIVE

Abstract

Contemporary dialogue about hermeneutic, as Riceour interprets it, still shows avivid interest to make it universal. To go towards this possibility, as to the fundamental task ofhermeneutic itself, has been implicitly understood in the phrase “philosophical hermeneutic”.Philosophical hermeneutic was given with Heidegger a radical notion of the “fundamental”hermeneutic, because it turned to “ontological” domain beyond its epistemological and methodologicalpreoccupations. To indend anything less for contemporary hermeneutic could onlymean that it is anachronistic. Nevertheless, to not be able to return to the question of “humansciences”, in Ricoeur’s opinion disables any contemporary hermeneutist to stay simply a Heideggerian.Regarding this need to mediate with historical consciousness, we investigate how Ricoeurconceptualize the notion of “narrative”. Narrative and time are two concepts which rest on thesame grounds, and their relation becomes even more interesting if we acknowledge Ricoeur’sargument that historiography is not that far away from narrative.