Narrative Identity and its reflection in Poetic Dwelling: Space-Time Rootedness from Paul Ricoeur and Martin Heidegger

Abstract

This research postulates that the Ricoeurian narrative identity and the Heideggerian poetic dwelling can be mutually complemented and enhanced to generate a root that allows us to coexist adequately with the scientific-technological world. In the contemporary world, all aspects of human action have acquired an almost total dependence on technique and its structures of ontic deployment. Within this horizon, each facet of human life undergoes a certain modification, and therefore, an existential affectation. In this sense, our space-temporal experience of the world is also fundamentally modified. As a methodical tool to unfold the dialogue between the narrative identity and the poetic dwelling, the dwelling will be taken as an eminent place to think about the space-time game of the world from where the human being recognizes himself. To achieve this aim, first, this article will describe the way in which the roots of poetic dwelling and narrative identity reiterate, in their own way, our self at the existential ontological level. Secondly, some modalities of space-time affectation caused by the technological-scientific changes of our era will be specified. Finally, as a fundamental objective, it is intended to generate a broad understanding of the reciprocity between narrative identity and poetic dwelling, showing its potential dynamic, conceptual and co-empowerment relationship.