The Aporias of Personal Identity: Ricoeur vs Parfit in Ricoeur's Oneself as Another
The Program in Literature presents
The Srinivas Aravamudan Annual Lecture in Critical Theory | 2022
Catherine Malabou
The Aporias of Personal Identity: Ricoeur vs Parfit in Ricoeur's Oneself as Another
Thursday, January 20, 2022
12:00 - 2:00pm (Zoom)
Introduction by Nima Bassiri
Paul Ricoeur affirms that the self has been for a long time mistaken for the "I" ("You", "We"...). They are fundamentally different though. The "what" of the self is not the "what" of the I. It is of decisive importance to distinguish between personal identity understood as sameness (I=I) and personal identity understood as selfhood or ipseity (I=another). Because of constantly reducing the second to the first - even in different and often incompatible ways -, continental and analytic philosophers have systematically confused otherness to oneself with pure and simple non-identity instead of regarding it as the narrative condition of all finite subjects.
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Catherine Malabou is a professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, at Kingston University, UK, and in the departments of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies at UC Irvine. Her last books include Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016, trans. Carolyn Shread), Morphing Intelligence, From IQ to AI (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, trans. Carolyn Shread), Le Plaisir effacé, Clitoris et pensée (Rivages, 2020), and Au Voleur! Anarchisme et philosophie (Paris: PUF, 2022).
