Distantiation, Post-Critique, and Realism. Reconsidering the Relation of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics in Ricœur

Recent developments in literary theory and philosophy, specifically regarding the role of critique, that inspire turn to post-critique realism, respectively, indicate a renewed sensitivity for concerns characteristic hermeneutic phenomenology. This essay argues crucial aspects Ricœur’s articulation phenomenology hermeneutics may help understand support realism that, turn, latter two invite return its phenomenological condition. To this end, understanding hermeneutical condition phenomenology, both form Husserl’s idealist religion, is revisited; account distantiation critically assessed; and, finally, interplay trust distrust at stake contrasted with modern insistence on hyperbolic doubt.