Philosophy Department Presents: Morny Joy (University of Calgary)

"Hannah Arendt and Paul Ricoeur: Discussion on 'Natality' and Narration, and on Imagination and Judging" Morny Joy is Professor in the Dept. of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary. Her PhD is from McGill University, Montreal. She studied at the University of Chicago with Paul Ricoeur on a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. She is a Life Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Helsinki in 2011. She researches and has published in the areas of philosophy and religion, postcolonialism, and intercultural studies in South and South-East Asia, as well as in diverse aspects of women and religion. Morny is on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Religion, and Managing General Editor of their book series. In recent years, she has published two edited volumes: one on Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion (Springer 2011), then After Appropriation: Explorations in Intercultural Philosophy and Religion (University of Calgary 2012). In 2013, the first of two volumes on Women and the Gift: Beyond the Given and the All-giving was published by Indiana University Press. Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) and Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first met at the University of Chicago in the late sixties. In an interview with Charles Reagan, Paul Ricoeur observes: “My choice of the University of Chicago was motivated by the fact that I could teach simultaneously in the Department of Philosophy, the Divinity School and the Committee on Social Thought. It was there that I met Hannah Arendt at the home of Paul Tillich. My friendship with them played a major role in the decision of the University of Chicago to invite me to regularly give courses there” (Reagan 1996: 132). In 1983 Ricoeur wrote a Preface to the French translation of The Human Condition (La Condition de l’homme modern). (This was published in English as: “Action, Story and History” in Salmagundi [1983]). Thereafter there is hardly a book of Ricoeur’s that does not make mention of Arendt. Though there is definite agreement on the understanding of natality, as well as on certain aspects of narration, their views on other topics, such as imagination and judgment, diverge.

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