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Penser l’Ethos Public Avec Une Approche Clinique Et Le Concept Ricoeurien d’Identité Narrative. -
to Conceive of Public Ethos through a Clinical Approach and the Ricoeurian Concept of Narrative Identity
A ricoeurian approach brings us to conceive the specificity of the public sector as such: A public ethos anchored in democratic governance (the space for actual pluralist society). An ethos conceived with an ethico-political perspective (for the self, for others and within just institutions). An ethos grounded into duration and memory: its historicity (specificity), its contingency (practical wisdom), and its fidelity (despite changes). Therefore, with a clinical approach and life stories’ methodology with public managers, we try to give meaning to this ethos as a relational activity that goes beyond the issue of self and others in face-to-face interactions and its instantaneity, but in its duration, a dimension that is pertaining to institutions.