Intersubjectivity, Reciprocity and the Third in Recognition Based on Ricoeur

Abstract

Through some passages of P. Ricoeur’s The course of Recognition we want to look into the original configuration of intersubjectivity and the “third” that emerges from his reading of the Hegelian Ankerkennung in terms of mutual exchange of gifts in the horizon of agape, with particular attention to the status of the third as other than the subjects of recognition, to its impersonal or personalizing character and to the problem of its “intentionality”.