Ricoeur Reader of L’amore difficile: In Dialogue with Domenico Jervolino

Abstract

Starting from the Préface written by Paul Ricoeur for the text L’amore difficile (Jervolino, 1995), this paper reconstructs the dialogue woven by the two thinkers on this issue, underlining the (methodological and hermeneutical) convergences, but also the inevitable divergences. A philosophical hermeneutics in which philosophy includes itself and its other (i. e. biblical thought): «this hermeneutics, in my opinion, remains to be thought» – Ricoeur notes. Can we maybe say that this hermeneutic of the ‘difficult love’ has been written by Domenico Jervolino, in a way that, after all, is – compared to his 'mentor' – the same one and an other one?