Abstract

Paul Ricoeur’s work entitled Memory, History, Forgetting presents his understanding of the works of Wilhelm Dilthey and Martin Heidegger with regard to history. What is admirable about Ricoeur here is that he was able to see that a notion of history emphasizing about life is not at all contradictory to an understanding of history based on a notion of death. What this paper will try to do is to expose how Paul Ricoeur bridges the link between the philosophy of history of Dilthey and Heidegger through his phenomenological hermeneutics.