The present paper compares and interlaces J. Derrida’s and P. Ricoeur’s re- flection, particularly dealing with the “autobiographical animal” and the “narra- tive identity”. The ethical issue enables an intersection between deconstruction and hermeneutic phenomenology, despite their insurmountable differences. Yet, the question is: does their “affirmative thinking” represent an answer to the issues of an epoch matching the supremacy of technoscience and acquiescence to nihilism?