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Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur ( / rɪˈkɜːr /; French: [ʁikœʁ]; 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics. As such, his thought is within the same tradition as other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Gabriel Marcel.
Nov 11, 2002 · Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) is a distinguished French philosopher of the twentieth century, one whose work has been widely translated and discussed across the world.
May 16, 2024 · Paul Ricoeur (born February 27, 1913, Valence, France—died May 20, 2005, Châtenay-Malabry) was a French philosopher and historian, who studied various linguistic and psychoanalytic theories of interpretation.
Paul Ricoeur was among the most impressive philosophers of the 20th century continental philosophers, both in the unusual breadth and depth of his philosophical scholarship and in the innovative nature of his thought.
May 24, 2005 · Paul Ricoeur, whose work on fundamental questions about the nature of human existence made him one of the most eminent philosophers of the 20th century, died Friday at his home in...
May 21, 2018 · Paul Ricoeur (born 1913) was a leading exponent of hermeneutical philosophy. He developed a theory of metaphor and discourse as well as articulating a comprehensive vision of the relation of time, history, and narrative.
Like earlier thinkers within the tradition of hermeneutics, Ricoeur treats the text as a privileged object of interpretation. But unlike earlier thinkers, Ricoeur argues that the process of interpretation can be facilitated and enriched by the use of explanatory methods of analysis.
