From «conflict of interpretations» to translation: late Ricoer's conceptual step

The article analyses an important shift in the late Paul Ricœur’s phenomenological hermeneutics. It shows how the so called «conflict of interpretations» abundantly discussed in the 1960s led Ricœur – through various conceptual amplifications and transformations – to a philosophical concept of translation. The author of the article sees translation as an endless ethical relation, as a paradigm of one’s relation to the other and at the same time maintains that treating cognition as translation (and translation as cognition) provides conceptual instruments for modernizing contemporary epistemology.