Language, violence and meaning: about a debate between eric Weil and Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

The civilization of the technique has instituted the progress by domination. This violence had (and still has) its limit in the language, that is, the violence denounces itself so as it is understood by language. Eric Weil and Paul Ricoeur agree in this regard and this is the first agreement that makes it possible to think that both philosophers are involved in the same project of thought. Basically by understanding that the Weilian Dialogic System is a fruitful source of ricouerian hermeneutics, especially, for being the text of Logique de la Philosophie a discourse of the discourses. Such discourses project is supported in a tension between sense and violence. Central concepts, as we all know, also to the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. The exploration of many themes from ricoeurian hermeneutics demonstrates that this develops your procedure, in our view, in contact with the concept of resumption of Weil. Said in another way: methodologically, ricoeurian philosophy is characterised by the re-reading of the philosophies, which is also the characteristic of the categories movement that meet and face off in the Logique de la Philosophie.