■Paul Ricoeur, "Hermeneutics and the human sciences: Essays on language, action and interpretation". Edited,translated and introduced by J. B. Thompson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
リクールの1980年頃までの著作をまとめた便利な本。
"1. The task of hermeneutics"(pp. 43-62)より引用しておく。
Another index of the dialectic of participation and distanciation is provided by the concept of the fusion of horizons (Horizontverschmelzung). (p.61)
Whenever there is a situation, there is an horizon which can be contracted or enlarged. We owe to Gadamer this very fruitful idea that communication at a distance between two differently situated consciousness occurs by means of the fusion of their horizon, ...This concept signifies that we live neither within closed horizons, nor withins one unique horizon.(p.62)
リクールがガダマーから受け取った最も実りある概念である「地平融合」を、私の知る限り最も平易に定義した箇所。
目下構想中の、副題：手記を読みながらの現象学的当事者研究、の中でも引用したい。
