Genèse d’une hérésie: la phénoménologie herméneutique de Paul Ricœur

In this essay I revisit Ricoeur’s famous greff e in light of Husserl’s method. In other words, I try to highlight the anti-idealist interpretation of phenomenology exposed by Ricoeur in his early project (Philosophie de la volonté) and in some later works, in order to present the necessity of the graft of hermeneutics onto the worn out body of western refl exive philosophy. Th is surgery has a radical eff ect on the “Subject”: far from provoking a “rejection crisis”, the hermeneutical graft provides the Cogito with a new heart, and gives new life to Ricoeur’s homme capable – the ultimate character of his long philosophical journey. Th e essay closes with an alternative interpretation of this “capability”.