Paul Ricoeur’s Concept of Subjectivity and the Postmodern Claim of the Death of the Subject

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Paul Ricoeur’s Concept of Subjectivity and the Postmodern Claim of the Death of the Subject. The irreplaceable role of narrative in generating meaning inspires Ricoeur to develop an ingenious concept of narrative identity. The inclusion of issues such as mutuality of vulnerability and indebtedness demonstrates that Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of the self is not an illusory theory in the vein of the postmodern vacillating or dissolving contours of subjectivity, but a philosophy rooted in praxis, extensively drawing on the tradition of phronetic wisdom. Dr. Holda juxtaposes the consequential interconnection between memory, history, and subjectivity in postmodernity with Ricoeur’s