THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL PAST

Sanja  Ivic

Submitted September 27, 2022

Published 2022-10-05

Artículos de investigación y ensayos filosóficos

No. 2 (2022): Analítica

THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL PAST

Sanja Ivic ⁺⁻

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Ivic , S. (2022) “THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL PAST”, Analítica, (2), pp. 122–138. Available at: https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/analitica/article/view/3170 (Accessed: 21 November 2024).

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Abstract

This paper emphasizes the significance of Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics in interpreting and understanding historical texts. Historical facts are not objects —they require interpretation. Paul Ricoeur argues that history can be compared to fiction as history can never accurately portray the past, and it thus incorporatesfictitious and imaginative elements According to Ricoeur, the idea of historical representation is based on imagination. Only with the help of the imagination can one represent the past and identify with it. Ricoeur’s narrative theory shows that the past is presented as a narrative, and it is reconstructed with the help of narratives. Historical narratives, which reflect the past and therefore include non-referring concepts, can be compared to non-referring concepts of fictional narratives. Non-referring concepts in both historical and fictional narratives require imagination and narrative understanding.

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[1] Aristotle. (1941) Poetics. In R. McKeon (ed.) The Basic Works of Aristotle. New York: Random House.

[2] Becanovic-Nikolic, Z. (1998) Hermeneutika i poetika. Belgrade: Geopoetika.

[3] Dilthey, W. (1996) Hermeneutics and the Study of History: Selected Works, Volume IV. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

[4] Eagleton, T. (2003) Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

[5] Elgin, C. Z. (1983) With Reference to Reference. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.

[6] Frye, N. (1957) Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

[7] Henderson, G. E., and Brown, C. (1997) Glossary of Literary Theory. Toronto: University of Toronto English Library.

[8] Ivic, S. (2018) Paul Ricoeur’s Idea of Reference: The Truth as Non-Reference. Brill: Boston, Leiden.

[9] Kearney, R. (1995) Narrative Imagination: Between Ethics and Poetics. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 21(5-6), pp. 173–190.

[10] Reynhout, K. A. (2013) Interdisciplinary Interpretation: Paul Ricœur and the Hermeneutics of Theology and Science. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

[11] Ricoeur, P. (1966) Freedom and Nature: The Voluntary and Involuntary, translated by Erazim V. Koha?k. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

[12] Ricoeur, P. (1967) The Symbolism of Evil. New York: Harper and Row.

[13] Ricoeur, P. (1970) Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

[14] Ricoeur, P. (1974) The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in Hermeneutics, edited by Don Ihde. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

[15] Ricoeur, P. (1976) Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning. Forth Worth, Texas: Christan University Press.

[16] Ricoeur, P. (1977) The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

[17] Ricoeur, P. (1979) The Function of Fiction in Shaping Reality. Man and World, 12 (2), pp. 123–141.

[18] Ricoeur, P. (1981) What is a Text? Explanation and Understanding. In P. Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation, pp. 107-126. Translated by John B. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[19] Ricoeur, P. (1984) Time and Narrative, Vol. 1. Translated by K. McLaughlin and D. Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

[20] Ricoeur, P. (1985) Time and Narrative, Vol. 2. Trans. by K. McLaughlin and D. Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago.

[21] Ricoeur, P. (1988) Time and Narrative, Vol. 3. Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

[22] Ricoeur, P. (1991a) On Interpretation. In P. Ricoeur, From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics II, pp. 1-20. London: Athlone Press.

[23] Ricoeur, P. (1991b) The Human Experience of Time and Narrative. In M. J. Valdés (ed.), A Ricœur Reader: Reflection and Imagination, pp. 99-116. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

[24] Taylor, G. (2006) Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Imagination. Journal of French Philosophy, 16 (1-2), pp. 93-104.

[25] White, H. (1973) Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

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