ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the construction and the role of the memorial discourse in Paul Ricoeur's work and its foundations, looking particularly at the last volume of Time and Narrative, Oneself as Another and of course Memory, History and Forgetting (MHF). It focuses on the development of the memorial discourse in Ricoeur is forged through three main axes. First, the question of being and identity, as well as the question of time and temporality, are fundamental in the development of Ricoeur's discourse on memory. Then, the chapter shows that the relationship of the memory discourse to history, both essential poles in the Ricoeurian reflection on the representation of the past, is a tangled one. It also shows that the Ricoeurian thought on the representation of the past necessarily leads to the consideration of the mediation of the past, which raises the question of the imagination and of the necessary critical perspective.
