Johann Michel, Self-Society. Applied hermeneutical test The work of Johann Michel, straddling philosophy and sociology, is built around a strong intellectual project: developing a “hermeneutical sociology” of human action using Paul Ricoeur in certain philosophical concepts. Reworked in a sociological sense, the concepts of self-esteem and narrative identity, developed by thesopher in Times and Narrative, allow Johann Michel to lay the groundwork for...