Abstract EN:

The matter of this thesis is to make the concept of "tradition" in philosophy clearer through the work of p. R. The latter was born in 1913, he was a writer, a philosopher and a believer, and he has been known to be the sole advocate of hermeneutics (interpretation) in philosophy. Hermeneutics is indispensable to man to understand himself as the subject doesn't master meaning, but is subservient to it. He is not in tune with himself partly because of his tradition. But nowhere does p. R. Explain this theme, neither in his articles nor in his books. Why is it so ? this thesis aims at demonstrating that there is no clear answer to the question : a) because the concept of "tradition" which conventionally associates the fact that a subject belongs to a community, to a temporality going back to an immemorial past and to the permanence of a language as well as to an aspiration to perennisation, was accepted as such only in the first part of the work before 1965. B) because after the "linguistic turn" and the discovery of the anglo-saxon analytic philosophy, p. R. Dropped these traditional norms of the notion of tradition to adopt intersubjectivity. The subjects are not integrated in a community any more but each for his own sake will interpret the wormd spread in front of him thanks to the texts to which p. R. Assimilates the acts and the works from the past that man must understand to try and know himself.