Time and Narrative (Paul Ricoeur)

Series: Philosophy & Critical Theory

Time and Narrative — Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur examines how narrative gives form to human experience of time.

He connects Augustine’s reflections on time with Aristotle’s account of plot.

Historical writing and fiction provide different ways of organizing events into meaningful stories.

The work follows how narrative is constructed and how readers reinterpret experience through it.

The trilogy brings these questions together in a philosophical account of narrative and temporality.

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