Herméneutiques croisées

Abstract

This paper intends to compare the hermeneutics of the subject by Ricoeur in Oneself as Another with the lessons given by Foucault at the Collège de France in 1981-1982 about The Hermeneutics of the Subject. Presented as an invented conversation, it tries to specify the meaning of both authors' hermeneutics and to find their implications about the subject's constitution, the conception of freedom and the status of ethics. The argumentation is based on the essential book Oneself as Another, conceived by Ricoeur at the same time Foucault was writing his last works.