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This chapter examines the philosophical implications of Ricoeur’s claim that there is something like a mysterious connection of time and space in memory. How then can we approach memory from the side of space? The answer, according to Ricoeur, is to be found in phenomenological descriptions of bodily spatiality, but also in a hermeneutical approach toward the question of how narrative offers a model to think both human time and human space
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This is way the body tends toward bifurcation (not to be mistaken with geometric bisection) and towards arranging its choices, directions, and movements as right-left, near-far, up-down, above-below, here-there, and so on
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Ricoeur makes an explicit reference to cinema in his presentation at Budapest in 2003. He talks about the film Shoah from Claude Lanzmann and Schindler’s List, directed by Spielberg. We could add, in the same context, La Vita è Bella from Roberto Benigni, Nuit et Brouillard, a film by Alain Resnais, or The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, directed by Mark Herman. Such films re-enact spaces of the past and by doing so they give us in the present the landscapes of past suffering, helping us to fight against oblivion.
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Umbelino, L.A. (2016). Memory, Space, Oblivion. In: Davidson, S., Vallée, MA. (eds) Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur. Contributions to Hermeneutics, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33426-4_9
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