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Publlcatlons

r~centes

The University of Chieago Press announces the

publication (1988) of the third volume, translated by
Kathleen Biamey and David Pellauer, of the triloqy
Time and Narrative by Paul Rieoeur:
"In the final volume of Time and Narrative, Ricoeur
synthesizes the ideas deve10ped in the first two books
and exp1icates the hypoth- esis that has qoverned his
inquiry, name1y that'the' effort of thinkinq at .work in
every narrative confiquration is comp1eted in a refiquration of temporal experience. To this end, he sets
himse1f the centra1 task of determininq how far a
poetics of narrative can be said to reso1ve the
aporias--the doubtfu1 ar problematic e1ements--of time.
Chiefamonq these aporias are the conf1icts between the
phenomeno1oqical sense of time (that experienced or
1ived by the individual) and the cosmo1oqica1 sense
(that described by history and physics) on the one hand
and the oneness or 'unitary nature of time on the other.
Ricoeur ref1ects upon the inscrutabi1ity of time itself
and attempts to discern the limits of his own examination of narrative discourse. He arques that an
ana1ytic concern with truth, which denies truth to
fiction, should qive way to a cancern for how time is
refiqured by narrative. 11

Les Editions universitaires du Sud, Collection

Philosophie diriq~e par Jean-Marc Gabaude,27, rue Mas
des Auqustins, 31500 Toulouse, annonce la seconde
~dition, revue et auqment~e, du livre de Joseph Rassam,
(1917-1977)
Le
Silence
comme introduction 1a
m~taphY5i9ue (1988):
"Andr! Malraux !coutait d!votieusement Les Voix du
Silence, dont i1 retirait une le~on d'art raffin! et de
supr@me saqesse Joseph Rassam nous convie une tout"
autre r~flexion: l'analyse m@me du silence, dans sa
contexture 1a plus profonde ou la plus secr~te, et a 1a
d~couverte
progressive de 50n sens spiritue1.
Le
si1ence se r~v~le ici comme la prop~deutique indispensable a toute m~taphysique authentique, susceptible de
naus introduire au coeur du R~e1. TOUT PROJET PHILOSOPHIQUE, ~crit l'aute~r, POURRAIT ETRE APPRECIE EN
FONCTION DE LA PLACE QU'IL ACCO.RDE, DE FACON EXPLIClTE
OU IMPLICITE, AU SILENCE.
( ... )
,
Psycholoques, phi1osaphes, linguistes, humanistes,
tous seront curieux de cette suggestive attention pr@t!e un silence, riehe de r~v~latians, par un esprit
de premier ordre, qui avait un don irremplaQable: ce1ui
de l'~coute m~taphysique."