Paul Marinescu, Ovidiu Stanciu (eds), Finitude and Meaning: Understanding History with Ricœur and Patočka, Zeta Books, 2026.
The question of history lies at the very core of the phenomenological project. This volume seeks to unfold and clarify its multiple dimensions through a sustained engagement with the works of Paul Ricœur and Jan Patočka. The studies gathered here adopt a distinctive interpretative approach: they examine themes that, while rooted in one of these two phenomenologists, open onto a deeper reconsideration of the other’s conception of history. In this way, each perspective sheds light on the other, creating a dynamic field of resonance structured by the fundamental link between finitude and meaning. Bringing together internationally recognized scholars, the volume critically revisits key texts and central ideas in the thought of Ricœur and Patočka, while highlighting the continuing relevance of their philosophies of history.
Contributors: Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Renauld Barbaras, Esteban Lythgoe, Chiara Pesaresi, Roger W. H. Savage, Claude Vishnu Spaak, Ovidiu Stanciu, Roberto Terzi.