%0 Journal Article
%T "As if" and the Surplus of Being in Ricoeur's Poetics ¡°As If¡± and the Surplus of Being in Ricoeur¡¯s Poetics
%A Timo Helenius
%J ¨¦tudes Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies
%D 2012
%I University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
%R 10.5195/errs.2012.113
%X Based on the double character of ¡°as if,¡± it is argued in this paper that ¡°the surplus of meaning¡± turns out to be ¡°the surplus of being,¡± which reveals a human being who interprets his or her own being and also acknowledges this being as be-ing at the same time. In this article, 1) the notion of ¡°as if¡± is retrieved from Ricoeur¡¯s early work in relation to the ¡°poetics of being¡± aspired to by him. This leads us to 2) examine the relation between the ¡°semantic surplus¡± and the ¡°becoming of being.¡± 3) Addressing the problem of metaphorical reference, the key philosophical problem of poetics, is, therefore, inevitable. Only after this analysis will we 4) be able to consider whether there is a kind of ¡°poetics of being¡± in the work of Paul Ricoeur.   Tir¨¦ du caract¨¨re double de ¡°comme si,¡± on pourrait soutenir que ¡°le surplus de sens¡± devient ¡°le surplus de l¡¯¨ºtre.¡± Ce surplus r¨¦v¨¨le un homme qui se trouve lui-m¨ºme dans son acte interpr¨¦tant, et comme un ¨ºtre, est ¨¤ la fois ¨¦tant et conscient de son ¨¦tat d'¨ºtre. Cet article 1) r¨¦cup¨¨re la notion de ¡°comme si¡± des premi¨¨res oeuvres de Ricoeur par rapport ¨¤ la ¡°po¨¦tique de l¡¯¨ºtre¡± aspir¨¦ par Ricoeur. Ceci conduit ¨¤ 2) examiner le rapport entre ¡°le surplus semantique¡± et ¡°le devenir de l¡¯¨ºtre.¡± Il semble donc in¨¦vitable qu¡¯on doive 3) aborder le probl¨¨me de la r¨¦f¨¦rence m¨¦taphorique, qui philosophiquement est le probl¨¨me le plus important li¨¦ ¨¤ la po¨¦tique. C¡¯est seulement apr¨¨s cette analyse que 4) nous sommes capables de consid¨¦rer s¡¯il y a une certaine ¡°po¨¦tique de l¡¯¨ºtre¡± dans l¡¯oeuvre de Paul Ricoeur.
%K poetics
%K ontology
%K polysemy
%K metaphor
%U http://ricoeur.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ricoeur/article/view/113