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The truth of the myth and the movement of history

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My paper aims to show that the distinctiveness of Patocka’s understanding of history can be brought to salience when it is approached from the standpoint of its complex relations with the question of myth. This project presupposes the rejection of the common understanding of these concepts: myth and history do not designate first and foremost narrative structures, but rather distinct forms of life, different ways ofinhabiting and articulating the space of meaning. Furthermore, Stanciu argues that myth andhistory bring to visibility not only essential structures of our existence, of our “being-in-the-world” but also intrinsic dimensions of the world itself. Thus, while myth displays thefundamental depth of the world, of its “nocturnal” dimension, history renders manifest thedynamic character of the world, its excess with regard to any stabilized order. The polarity ofmyth and history may thus be understood as revelatory in an emphatic sense – not only for ourexistence, but for the world itself.

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Philosophie
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hal-04021539 , version 1 (09-03-2023)

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Ovidiu Stanciu. The truth of the myth and the movement of history. O. Stanciu; P. Marinescu. Finitude and Meaning. Understanding History with Ricoeur and Patočka, Zeta Books, inPress. ⟨hal-04021539⟩
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