The "Graft", the "Residue" and "Memory". Two Conversations with Tamas TÓTH (France-Hungary)

The text contains two interviews made by Tamas Toth, researcher of the MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Budapest, with Paul Ricoeur in June 1991 and June 1996. The main stages of the French philosopher's life and work as well as his views on hermeneutics, tradition and postmodernism are also outlined in these conversations. The "residue", the "graft" and "memory" are issues connected to a lifetime's work and lively thought which sees itself as constitutional. In every book and writing there "remain" unanswered questions which motivate further writings. Moreover, the issues of language, history, present  and - this is most important - memory come to surface. This latter is the one which Ricoeur says about the most new things, in an inherent but proble-matising context.

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