Ricoeur's Theory Of Narrative Research Articles

Narrative technologies meets virtue ethics in alternate reality

Virtue ethics offers a promising starting point for thinking about ethics of technology. Usually, virtue ethics of technology focuses on explaining how we can cultivate our technomoral virtues to cope with technological change. However, it is not clear yet how exactly technologies in turn mediate technomoral virtues, or more precisely how the technological practices that cultivate these virtues do so. Inspired by Ricoeur and MacIntyre, this paper responds to this challenge with an account of technological mediation based on Ricoeur's narrative theory, and explores the possibility of a narrative virtue ethics of technology. We argue that the virtues are technologically mediated because particular technologies configure the practices by which people cultivate their virtues. We demonstrate how this approach could be applied by discussing the example of Pokémon Go: an alternate reality game that enjoyed a brief time of great global popularity and allows players to act through the game in the real world.

The e ‐ Narrated Self

A common question asked about the web 2.0 by the offline population is: "What do people do there?" The paper addresses this question with respect to Paul Ricoeur's narrative theory of the self. According to his essay Life in Quest of Narrative, a person drifts through time experiencing events happening to them, but none of it is actually lived when it is not "recounted" or "storied". In this light, "storytelling may be said to humanise time by transforming it from an impersonal passing of fragmented moments into a patter, a plot ,a mythos". Blogs and sites like Facebook represent the most recent development in the human attempt to weave this "mythos". A profile page and a tweet are first and foremost stories that appear to its critics "truncated or parodied" by design "to the point of being called micro-narratives or post-narratives", and to it s advocates"multi-plotted, multi-vocal and multi-media". The paper introduces notions of e-Self and e-Narrative, examines their dangers and benefits, and concludes that "the advent of cyber-culture should be seen not as a threat to storytelling but as a catalyst for new possibilities of interactive, non-linear narration".

A Phantasmic Experience: Narrative Connection of Dead Celebrities in Advertisements

Featuring dead celebrities in current advertisements has become a well-known practice in contemporary advertising techniques. Marilyn Monroe sells Sunsilk, John Lennon is a spokesman for One Laptop per Child, Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor demonstrate the roominess of a Jetta's now larger backseat. To unearth the viability of re-structuring dead celebrities into new advertisements, this article analyzes how phantasms – visual and vocal recordings – speak to the living consumer through the construction of emplotment, a main element of Paul Ricoeur's narrative theory. Particularly, Ricoeur's work on mimesis, metaphors, and memories direct this inquiry for these terms shape a phenomenological understanding of temporality and connectivity with a disembodied other. The goal of such exploration aims to link dead celebrities with the construction and transmission of persuasive messages within an advertising narrative framework.

An exploration of the aesthetics of an oral history performance developed in the classroom

This paper aims to explore a range of aesthetic aspects involved in the devising and production processes of oral history performance in a classroom setting. It touches upon the ethical dimension of aesthetics employing the Confucianist Wang Yang Ming's aesthetic philosophy and Buber's theories of relation as the theoretical frames. The devising process realises the concept of aestheticisation of ethics by fulfilling the ‘I–You’ relations through the constructed dialogues formulated by the teacher-facilitator. The paper is divided into six parts to illustrate the whole aesthetic system – from aesthetic framework to reception. I apply Ricoeur's narrative theory to analyse the cycle of re-interpretation and reception process of the personal narratives. Deleuze's theories in ‘Signs and Memory’ have been employed to decipher how the signs of art have been distilled from personal memories. Bachelard's poetics of space and Lefebvre's theories of the subversive power of space have been employed to demonstrate the possibility of the presentation and subversion of body and space through performance. In conclusion, I apply Shusterman's pragmatist aesthetics to argue that oral history performances put ethics into action by re-negotiating personal and collective identities through dialogical process and re-interpreting the past.

Is Ricoeur's Notion of Narrative Identity Useful in Understanding Recovery in Drug Addicts?

From Ricoeur's narrative theory, we argue that drug addicts may particularly need the help of literature, in a broad sense- fiction, history, and also specialized literature on addiction-to make their lives intelligible, to construct their identities, and to be able to change. Their need for this popular and professional literature concerns the numerous theories in the field of addiction. This literature is encountered indirectly by patients via interaction with professionals. It reflects attempts on the part of practitioners to find turning points in their patients' life stories, as in the mimesis circle described by Ricoeur. Our hypothesis is therefore explored in the light of certain sociological and psychiatric models that plot patients' lives, especially in the recovery period. The risks of a noncritical appropriation of this literature are discussed. Indeed, patients may hesitate between several identification models, loss of identity, and identity withdrawal.

The Narrative of Ethics and the Ethics of Narrative: The Implications of Ricoeur's Narrative Model for Family Therapy

In this article, we explore Paul Ricoeur's meditations on language, memory, and forgiveness as a means to better understanding ethical concerns of narrative construction in family therapy. These meditations highlight that narrative construction is fundamentally a relational process and therefore encourages a relationally responsible form of liberating narrative. The article includes a review of current perspectives on ethics in narrative therapy, an overview of Ricoeur's narrative theory, and a discussion of the implications of Ricoeur's theory for family therapists.

On the use of narratives in nursing research.

On the use of narratives in nursing research Narratives have always been a path to knowledge in nursing care but are a recent element within nursing research. Therefore, this article deals with the narrative and its use within nursing research. First, the use of narratives in nursing care and nursing research is examined. Second, Paul Ricoeur's narrative theory with its dimensions of interpretation, time, action and ethics is presented as a possible methodological basis. Third, the use of Ricoeur's narrative theory in nursing research is examined, showing that, at present, support mainly comes from Ricoeur's text interpretation theory. Finally, a nursing research approach to the narrative, based on the life-world, is suggested.

Customers are consumers of library resources and services—or are they?

Paul Ricoeur's narrative theory, when combined with the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu (1990), fosters a fresh perspective on the debate about the language of business and its influence in librarianship (Horton, 1996). The author contends that the assertion ‘Customers of libraries are consumers of services and resources provided by librarians’ is inappropriate. It is suggested that narratives about readers hold promise because they capture the active nature of reading as it is described by Ricoeur (1984), and as it is reflected in the theme of the 1996 ALIA Biennial Conference—Reading the future.

Paul Ricoeur and narrative: context and contestation

Paul Ricoeur's theory of narrative has implications for a wide spectrum of contemporary thought. This collection of essays explores many of the areas to which his narrative strategies can be fruitfully applied, including architecture, psychology, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, ethics, sociology, medieval and contemporary literature, and religious studies. The book provides an introduction to the creative and productive resources of Ricoeur's narrative theory and offers a helpful survey of many of his key concepts for those who may be unfamiliar with Ricoeur's work. With Contributions By: Pamela Anderson David D. Brown Helen M. Buss Bernard P. Dauenhauer Jocelyn Dunphy Blomfield Lori Egger Linda Fisher James Fodor Hermina Joldersma Morny Joy GrahamLivesey David Pellauer Dominique Perron C. Bryn Pinchin Jamie S. Scott Henderikus J. Stam Robert D. Sweeney Terrence W. Tilley

Biblical narrative in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur: a study in hermeneutics and theology

Although Paul Ricoeur's writings are widely and appreciatively read by theologians, this book offers a full, sympathetic yet critical account of Ricoeur's theory of narrative interpretation and its contribution to theology. Unlike many previous studies of Ricoeur, Part I argues that Ricoeur's hermeneutics must be viewed in the light of his overall philosophical agenda, as a fusion and continuation of the unfinished projects of Kant and Heidegger. Particularly helpful is the focus on Ricoeur's recent narrative theory as the context in which Ricoeur deals with problems of time and the creative imagination; and it becomes clear that narrative stands at the crossroads of Ricoeur's search for the meaning of human being as well as his search for the meaning of texts. Part II examines the potential of Ricoeur's narrative theory for resolving certain theological problems, such as the dichotomy betweens the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith.