A Second Copernican Revolution. Phenomenology of the Mutuality and Poetics of the Gift in the last Ricœur
A Second Copernican Revolution. Phenomenology of the Mutuality and Poetics of the Gift in the last Ricœur

Summary/Abstract: Most scholars point out that Ricoeur’s itinerary ends with a “phenomenology of the capable human being”. In this paper, I will try to propose a diff erent hypothesis and explain why Ricoeur’s last writings can be considered the starting point of a second Copernican revolution within phenomenology. A revolution of both method (from the analytic to the a-logical) and contents (from the theme of intersubjectivity to the theme of “giving” and loving), which, already in the Preface of Le volontaire et l’involontaire, Ricoeur wished could follow after the fi rst revolution of the refl exive phenomenology: a hermeneutic poetic phenomenology that develops the project that the early Ricoeur had drafted, but not completed in the 1950s. Th is is the project of a Poetics of the Gift, in which is hidden, in my opinion, the fecundity of Ricoeurian philosophy and the possibility for it to become paradigmatic for the philosophy to come.

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