Identité narrative collective et critique sociale

Authors

  • Alain Loute Centre de Philosophie du Droit, Université catholique de Louvain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2012.119

Keywords:

Critical theory, Narrative identity, Critical intervention, Paul Ricœur, Emmanuel Renault

Abstract

For many authors, the transformations of capitalism have had the effect of causing suffering (stress, stigmatization, disaffiliation, etc..) whose social dimension is not recognized. For Emmanuel Renault, theoretical critique can analyze these new sufferings and become a "spokesman" giving voice to suffering beings. In this article, the author proposes to problematize this form of critical intervention, building on Paul Ricœur's reflections on the issue of the dispossession of the actors’ power to recount their actions themselves. If Renault’s intervention makes sense in relation to the ideologization of narrative identity, it remains unsatisfactory against “internal” resistances to the emplotment of the self. Ricœur’s analysis of the analytic experience teaches us that these resistances cannot be lifted through mere intellectual understanding and that the narrative restructuration of the personality must sometimes take the form of real work.

Author Biography

Alain Loute, Centre de Philosophie du Droit, Université catholique de Louvain

Alain Loute est docteur en philosophie de l’Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique). Il a publié entre autres La création sociale des normes, De la socio-économie des conventions à la philosophie de l’action de Paul Ricoeur (Hildesheim/Zürich/New York, Olms, 2008). Récemment, il a co-édité, avec le prof. Marc Maesschalck, Nouvelle critique sociale, Europe – Amérique Latine, Aller – Retour (Monza, Polimetrica, 2011). Il a été « chargé de recherches » au Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) au Centre de Philosophie du Droit de l’Université catholique de Louvain.

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2012-06-25

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