Sanja Ivic, PhD (2011) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Serbia. She completed her Postdoctoral research at the University of Paris X (France). Her publications include books and articles on various subjects in the field of philosophy.

• PrefaceIntroduction1 Ricœur’s Idea of Reference as Refiguration: the Non-Descriptive Reference of Literary Work1  Introduction2  Ricœur’s Idea of Reference as Refiguration3  Ricœur’s Conception of Threefold Mimesis4  The Concept of Null-Reference5 Conclusion2 The Truth as Non-Reference: the Realist and Anti-Realist Conception of Reference1  Introduction2  Reference as Refiguration in Science3  The Success of Non-Referring Concepts: a Hermeneutic Aspect of Reference4  Conclusion3 Ricœur’s Concept of Reference Applied to Theories of Scientific Realism and to Historical Texts: Real versus Unreal1Introduction2The Question of Truth in the Theories of Scientific Realism and in the Historical and Fictional Narratives3Realism and the Realm of Possibility4Conclusion4 The Universality of Hermeneutic and Narrative Experience: Ricœur’s Narrative Theory Applied to Science1  Introduction2  Explanation and Understanding in the History of Science and Philosophy3  Binary Oppositions in Science4  Ricœur’s Dialectics between Explanation and Understanding5  Ricœur’s Narrative Theory Applied to Science6  Narrative Understanding: Mediating between Fictional and Historical Texts7  Conclusion5 Ricœur’s Idea of Metamorphoses of Narrative Plots1  Introduction2  Ricœur’s Idea of Narrative Paradigm: A Question about the Limits of Plot3  Transhistorical Schematism of Narration4  Conclusion6 The Idea of Truth as Non-Reference in Literature1  Introduction2  Art as the Personal Truth of the Author in Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita3  Artistic and Religious Conception of Truth4  The Idea of Truth as Non-Reference in Borges’ “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”5  ConclusionReferencesName IndexSubject Index

Sanja Ivic, PhD (2011) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Serbia. She completed her Postdoctoral research at the University of Paris X (France). Her publications include books and articles on various subjects in the field of philosophy.

• PrefaceIntroduction1 Ricœur’s Idea of Reference as Refiguration: the Non-Descriptive Reference of Literary Work1  Introduction2  Ricœur’s Idea of Reference as Refiguration3  Ricœur’s Conception of Threefold Mimesis4  The Concept of Null-Reference5 Conclusion2 The Truth as Non-Reference: the Realist and Anti-Realist Conception of Reference1  Introduction2  Reference as Refiguration in Science3  The Success of Non-Referring Concepts: a Hermeneutic Aspect of Reference4  Conclusion3 Ricœur’s Concept of Reference Applied to Theories of Scientific Realism and to Historical Texts: Real versus Unreal1Introduction2The Question of Truth in the Theories of Scientific Realism and in the Historical and Fictional Narratives3Realism and the Realm of Possibility4Conclusion4 The Universality of Hermeneutic and Narrative Experience: Ricœur’s Narrative Theory Applied to Science1  Introduction2  Explanation and Understanding in the History of Science and Philosophy3  Binary Oppositions in Science4  Ricœur’s Dialectics between Explanation and Understanding5  Ricœur’s Narrative Theory Applied to Science6  Narrative Understanding: Mediating between Fictional and Historical Texts7  Conclusion5 Ricœur’s Idea of Metamorphoses of Narrative Plots1  Introduction2  Ricœur’s Idea of Narrative Paradigm: A Question about the Limits of Plot3  Transhistorical Schematism of Narration4  Conclusion6 The Idea of Truth as Non-Reference in Literature1  Introduction2  Art as the Personal Truth of the Author in Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita3  Artistic and Religious Conception of Truth4  The Idea of Truth as Non-Reference in Borges’ “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”5  ConclusionReferencesName IndexSubject Index

Sanja Ivic, PhD (2011) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Serbia. She completed her Postdoctoral research at the University of Paris X (France). Her publications include books and articles on various subjects in the field of philosophy.

• PrefaceIntroduction1 Ricœur’s Idea of Reference as Refiguration: the Non-Descriptive Reference of Literary Work1  Introduction2  Ricœur’s Idea of Reference as Refiguration3  Ricœur’s Conception of Threefold Mimesis4  The Concept of Null-Reference5 Conclusion2 The Truth as Non-Reference: the Realist and Anti-Realist Conception of Reference1  Introduction2  Reference as Refiguration in Science3  The Success of Non-Referring Concepts: a Hermeneutic Aspect of Reference4  Conclusion3 Ricœur’s Concept of Reference Applied to Theories of Scientific Realism and to Historical Texts: Real versus Unreal1Introduction2The Question of Truth in the Theories of Scientific Realism and in the Historical and Fictional Narratives3Realism and the Realm of Possibility4Conclusion4 The Universality of Hermeneutic and Narrative Experience: Ricœur’s Narrative Theory Applied to Science1  Introduction2  Explanation and Understanding in the History of Science and Philosophy3  Binary Oppositions in Science4  Ricœur’s Dialectics between Explanation and Understanding5  Ricœur’s Narrative Theory Applied to Science6  Narrative Understanding: Mediating between Fictional and Historical Texts7  Conclusion5 Ricœur’s Idea of Metamorphoses of Narrative Plots1  Introduction2  Ricœur’s Idea of Narrative Paradigm: A Question about the Limits of Plot3  Transhistorical Schematism of Narration4  Conclusion6 The Idea of Truth as Non-Reference in Literature1  Introduction2  Art as the Personal Truth of the Author in Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita3  Artistic and Religious Conception of Truth4  The Idea of Truth as Non-Reference in Borges’ “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”5  ConclusionReferencesName IndexSubject Index