Mon corps. Description ou liens sécrets? Paul Ricoeur, Edmund Husserl et Gabriel Marcel

«The meditation on the work of Gabriel Marcel is indeed at the origin of the analysis of this book; on the other hand, we wanted to place ourselves at the intersection of two requirements: that of a thought fueled by the mystery of my body, that of a thought concerned with the distinctions inherited from the Husserlian method of description». Thus Ricoeur, at the beginning of Le Volontaire et l’Involontaire (1950) dedicated to Marcel, presents the twofold beginning of his reflection. The needs are different and indispensable, but by no means incompatible: the tension to the rigor that invites the work of the concept (Husserl, the pure description, the intentional structures of consciousness, objectivity), and the need for depth that documents the existence as involvement (Marcel, freedom to think, the Copernican revolution of the body, the mystery). Between concept and participation, a decisive reflection emerges on the role and practice of phenomenology.