This article interprets a fragment of Paul Ricoeur's posthumous text, Living Up to Death, proposing the Thesis of Animating Mourning. According to this thesis, mourning is simultaneously the process of the survival of the spirit of the dead in the living and the primary form of spiritual vivification of the living. Death is the end of human biology, but the origin of its biography, acting as...
Beyond the distinction between speech acts and acts of conscience (intentionale Erlebnisse) – certainly correct, but proposed with some oversimplification by certain handbooks –, the paper reflects on the logic of testimony and presence in the religious language. The point of convergence between analytical (in its pragmatic point of view) and continental philosophy (especially in the...