Franco Riva

Preceded by Karl Jaspers with Dufrenne, Ricoeur’s Gabriel Marcel et Karl Jaspers came out in 1947 without introduction, in an existentialist and Sartrian climate (atheist: Heidegger, Sartre; Christian: Jaspers, Marcel), emphasized by Mounier. Ricoeur relies on elective kinships – but passed over in silence by both Jaspers and Marcel...

Two data at first glance in contrast open new research paths. On the one hand, Rita Charon’s Narrative Medicine indicates in Gabriel Marcel (with E. Lévinas), above all, the philosopher who develops with «strength and clarity some of the most useful concepts» for care, referring however to works where the disease and the medical/patient relationship intervene by way of example, albeit paradigmatic and decisive...

«The meditation on the work of Gabriel Marcel is indeed at the origin of the analysis of this book; on the other hand, we wanted to place ourselves at the intersection of two requirements: that of a thought fueled by the mystery of my body, that of a thought concerned with the distinctions inherited from the Husserlian method of description». Thus Ricoeur, at the beginning of Le Volontaire et l’Involontaire (1950) dedicated to Marcel, presents the twofold beginning of his reflection...

Nessun affresco medievale sui vizi e sulle virtù rappresenta la corruzione. Un male senza volto, che a volte si presenta come “apparenza di bene” e una faccia da santarellino. Il segno dell’immanenza perfetta, come ci insegna spesso l’attuale pontefice.

Reform and Revolution hate and love each other. Now they go in opposite directions, now they fight together against oppression and corruption, under the paradigm of the Exodus and the way from slavery to freedom...

Don Quixote, son of the catholic Spain, have had many interpreters: intellectuals of Jewish origin (Marx, Bloch, Lévinas), Orthodox Christians (Dostoevskij, Turgenev), Reformed Christians (Kant, Goethe), Catholic Christians (Schlegel, Unamuno, Von Balthasar, Zambrano, Ortega y Gasset) and many others (Diderot, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Borges). Thanks to his untimely ideal of chivalry, Don Quixote keeps hope alive to help needy, poor and hungry people: dream of a world of justice, into the reality of injustice...

The contraposition between the Individual and the Crowd subtends the question of the place of...

Tenendosi a distanza da cliché di comodo, attraverso tre articolati movimenti (Archeologia, Esistenza, Condivisione) si restituisce in via teorica ed ermeneutica la struttura in tensione del bene verso l’altro da sé.