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(2016) Hermeneutics and phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur, Dordrecht, Springer.
Involuntary memory and apprenticeship to truth
Ricoeur re-reads Proust
pp. 105-113
This chapter examines Ricœur's reading of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, which is developed in the second volume of Time and Narrative. It insists first and foremost on the corporeality of involuntary memory. Highlighting both the strengths and weaknesses of Ricoeur's interpretation, it argues that Ricoeur has not sufficiently emphasized the corporeal dimension of memory that is so crucial in Proustian descriptions, where it is primarily the body that remembers through the senses of taste, smell, touch, etc. Far from being secondary, the anchoring of memory in corporeality is essential to the sudden rediscovery of the time that was believed to be lost forever.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33426-4_8
Full citation:
(2016)., Involuntary memory and apprenticeship to truth: Ricoeur re-reads Proust, in S. Davidson & M. Vallée (eds.), Hermeneutics and phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 105-113.
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