Paul Ricœur
French philosopher (1913–2005) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. In 2000, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for having "revolutionized the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology, expanding the study of textual interpretation to include the broad yet concrete domains of mythology, biblical exegesis, psychoanalysis, theory of metaphor, and narrative theory."[6]
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Paul Ricœur | |
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Born | Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur 27 February 1913 |
Died | 20 May 2005(2005-05-20) (aged 92) Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
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Simone Lejas
(m. 1935; died 1998) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy Hermeneutic phenomenology[2] Psychoanalysis Christian theology Christian existentialism |
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Main interests | Phenomenology Hermeneutics Philosophy of action Moral philosophy Political philosophy Philosophy of language Personal identity Narrative identity Historiography Literary criticism Ancient philosophy |
Notable ideas | Psychoanalysis as a hermeneutics of the Subject, theory of metaphor, metaphors as having "split references" (one side referring to something not antecedently accessible to language),[lower-alpha 1][4] criticism of structuralism, productive imagination, social imaginary,[5] the "school of suspicion" in philosophy |
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