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This paper reconstructs the principal stages of Ricœur’s confrontation with Hegel’s dialectics, from the first manuscript notes on “Hegel’s negativity” to the 1975 Essay “The Place of Dialectics.” The author’s objective is three-fold. First to recover at its genesis the Ricœurian effort toward regionalization of Hegelian dialectics, the reasons of which cannot be reduced to a generic refusal of the effects of systematic totalization of the Hegelian identification of negation with mediation. Secondly, he aims to underscore the exogenous and endogenous reasons that underlie the extension and displacement of Hegelian ethics, due to the Ricœurian grafting of hermeneutics onto phenomenology. Finally, the author intends to determine the variable place maintained by Hegelian dialectics regarding other “dialectics” that fuel the dialectical style of Ricœur’s philosophy, from Kierkegaard’s “dialectics” of paradox and the dialectics of the five genders of the Sophist – as he interprets them – to the nabertian dialectics between act and signs.