We had quite a deal of fun chewing over a Paul Ricoeur quote about history and fiction.
In his article he argues that the history and fiction intersect in the way they refer to the 'real' world.
Our ultimate interest when we do history is to enlarge our sphere of communication: that is, to encounter that which is different to us. But this requires an imaginative act, which is, to suspend your own conditions and desires and assumptions, in order to be communicated to.
'My contention...is that it is in this exchange between history and fiction and between their opposite referential claims that our historicity is brough to language.'
2 comments:
it was fun once the cluster headache passed... :)
thanks for the follow-up post!
btw, i saw some of my sins in your blogging no-no list...
Well, it is part confession of course, Sarah!
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