If we go back to the intention [Marx, Nietzsche and Freud] had in common, we find in it the decision to look upon the whole of consciousness primaril… - Paul Ricœur

The possibility of noncongruence, of discrepancy, in many ways already presupposes that individuals as well as collective entities are related to their own lives and to social reality not only in the mode of participation without distance but precisely in the mode of noncongruence. ... The presupposition here is precisely that of a social imagination, operating in both constructive and destructive ways, as both confirmation and contestation of the present situation.

I dislike those who present myself as a Protestant philosopher; I am a philosopher and a Protestant.

Je suis irrité lorsqu’on me présente comme philosophe protestant, je suis philosophe et protestant.