Böcker av Johann Michel

What do repair and reparation tell us about human beings? They speak to our (natural) vulnerability, our (moral) fallibility, and our (social) incompleteness, but also about the many capabilities we draw upon to mitigate these shortcomings. It is from the heart of human finitude that repair and reparation draw meaning.

Quand le social vient au sens ouvre un dialogue novateur entre philosophie et sciences sociales et historiques, a la croisee de la tradition socio-phenomenologique heritee de l'A uvre pionniere de Schutz et de la tradition hermeneutique de Dilthey a RicA ur. Un meme fil conducteur parcourt la trame du livre : seule la voie longue de l'hermeneutique, en reconnaissant la doublure de l'acte d'interpreter (a la fois comme pratique ordinaire au plan anthropologique et comme activite scientifique au plan epistemologique), peut se coordonner avec les requisits d'une sociologie phenomenologique du monde-de-la-vie. L'ouvrage offre, sous ce cadre, toute une palette de reflexions qui concernent aussi bien l'epistemologie de l'histoire que la sociologie des institutions et l'anthropologie sociale du soi. Dans ce mouvement de va-et-vient entre reflexivite sur les sciences humaines et reflexivite des agents ordinaires sur leurs actions, l'auteur confronte en meme temps l'hermeneutique avec d'autres auteurs (Weber, Goffman, Foucault, Boltanski, Strawson, etc.) et autant de traditions correspondantes (positivisme, sociologies pragmatistes et pragmatiques, philosophie analytique).

Leading contemporary philosopher Johann Michel offers an innovative reflection on the human being. The book presents an interdisciplinary study that engages philosophy, sociology and anthropology, offering a systematic analysis of the phenomenon of interpretation.

In this important and original book, Johann Michel paves the way for a greater understanding of Paul Ricoeurs philosophy by exploring it in relation to some major figures of contemporary French thoughtBourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Castoriadis.Although the fertile dialogue between Ricoeur and various structuralist thinkers is well documented, his position in relation to the post-structuralist movement is less-widely understood. Does Ricoeurs philosophy stand in opposition to post-structuralism in France or, on the contrary, is it in fact a unique variation of that movement? This book defends the latter statement. Michel speaks of post-structuralisms in the plural form and engages them in a dynamic confrontation between Ricoeur and his contemporaries in the French intellectual scene. The result is a better understanding of Ricoeurs thought and also of the distinctive issues that emerge through confrontation between Ricoeur and each of these post-structuralist thinkers.