2023-05-10 12:32:26
How to grasp the relationship between the conflict of memories, common history and buried promises? When can we say that the past, in its traumas and its promises, is over? How to convert the hostility of memoirs into narrative hospitality?
On this day of May 10, which commemorates the memory of the slave trade and its abolition, we return to the symposium which was held from April 25 to 27 at the French Institute of Kinshasa around the thought of the philosopher Paul Ricœur, at the initiative of the Ricœur Fund (EHESS-Paris).
Entitled “Wounded memories, unfulfilled promises” this symposium resumed in three days the three main lines of the title of the book of the French philosopher Memory, history, oblivion (Seuil, 2000) to address wounded memories – both by the colonial past and by the present of wars – their representations and their repair.
Why and how does Ricoeur’s work echo today and resonate with the questions of thinkers on the continent, particularly in the bruised DRC, wounded by the colonial past and by the present of wars and barbarism….
How to think and heal all these wounds? How to get out of resentment without going back on broken promises? How to convert the hostility of memories into hospitality, and bring about the great dialogue of cultures announced by Ricoeur to open up other horizons of other imaginations and another reality on the continent?
With Olivier AbelProfessor of Ethical Philosophy at the Protestant Institute of Theology in Montpellier and creator of the Ricoeur Fund.
And the testimonies of the historian Arlette Masamuna (Kinshasa) and philosophers Amelie Aristelle Ekassi (Yaounde) and David-Le-Duc Tiaha (Paris/ Créteil) – About collected by Charlie Dupiot.
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