Abstract
The philosophical concept of anxiety, which is usually associated with Kierkegaard and Heidegger's existential philosophy, seems to be an underestimated notion in Paul Ricoeur's phenomenological hermeneutics, while its role is important - anxiety appears to serve as the grounding for hope in his hermeneutics of self. The article aims to show how the anxiety is explained in Ricoeur's philosophy through attention and recognition, and how the anxiety is reflected in the narrative forms, or descriptions of vivencia . These descriptions may be seen as the verbal explanation of the so-called affective niche or affective scaffolding , which is a form of cultural adaptation, attempting to interpret and comprehend one's state of mind and way of the perception of the world as such in the given moment. The research and further dialogue based on these narrations may become an important source to recover from anxiety disorder, by discovering its existential meaning and, at the same time, accepting personal responsibility for it. Ricoeur's phenomenological hermeneutics made an important theoretical contribution in understanding the essential aspects of anxiety and hope; but it also developed prolific methods of interpretation, that could be practically applied in health care and psychotherapy; these can be shown on the example of the psychotherapeutic method of the usage of so-called 'anxiety protocols', which aim to arrange the hermeneutical co-research to help patient/client to recognize and overcome its anxiety disorders.
Highlights
The philosophical concept of anxiety, which is usually associated with Kierkegaard and Heidegger's existential philosophy, seems to be an underestimated notion in Paul Ricoeur's phenomenological hermeneutics, while its role is important — anxiety appears to serve as the grounding for hope in his hermeneutics of self
While nowadays his name is commonly associated with hermeneutics, phenomenology and analytical philosophy, and so many literature was written on his ethics, social and political thought — his theoretical contribution to the understanding the issue of affectivity is still underestimated
The term of anxiety has become one of the benchmarks in Heidegger's Dasein analytic; it has been a remarkable concept in Kierkegaard's philosophy, but the historical aspect of anxiety associated with the method of the recognition of the anxiety wasn't that much thematised in terms of practical philosophy before Ricoeur
Summary
The philosophical concept of anxiety, which is usually associated with Kierkegaard and Heidegger's existential philosophy, seems to be an underestimated notion in Paul Ricoeur's phenomenological hermeneutics, while its role is important — anxiety appears to serve as the grounding for hope in his hermeneutics of self. I would like to focus on Ricoeur's notion of anxiety (l'angoisse), interpreted as true or false, and its relation to his hermeneutics of recognition (reconnaissance).
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