RICOEUR FACE À MORTE: A ATITUDE AGNÓSTICA E AS SUAS RAMIFICAÇÕES NA OBRA PÓSTUMA VIVANT JUSQU´À LA MORT

The posthumous work “Vivant jusqu`à la mort” is composed of two parts. The first contains two archival documents: the first entitled “Until death. Mourning and good mood ”and the other simply“ Death ”. In the first, Ricœur reflects on the testimony given by Jorge Semprun of his experience of “surviving”. This reflects the personal experience of the philosopher who accompanied his wife to death. “Exorcising” the * Professor Universitário e Psicanalista. Pós-Doutor pela Freiburg Universität (Suíça), pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Braga), pela Warsaw University, e em Teologia pela PUC-Rio. Doutor em Teologia pela FAJE. E-mail: dentz@hotmail.com 246 René Armand Dentz Estudos de Religião, v. 34, n. 2 • 245-266 • maio-ago. 2020 • ISSN Impresso: 0103-801X – Eletrônico: 2176-1078 imaginary of death is then a way of aiming at a way of existing alive and “surviving” after the death of our loved one. In the second archival document, “A death”, two lines of reflection are developed on the imaginary of survival, within the targeted “exorcist” invoked in the first part. And it is in these two lines to think the imaginary of survival the perfect and imperfect detachment that the Ricurian effort is developed, aiming at a difficult reconciliation between the philosophical and the religious when thinking about their respective limits, or even their common border. What we propose to do here is to elucidate this reconciliation effort and ask the question of its interpretation.