Paul Ricœur

Paul Ricœur
Ricœur, c. 1999
Born
Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur

27 February 1913
Valence, Drôme, France
Died20 May 2005(2005-05-20) (aged 92)
Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Spouse
Simone Lejas
(m. 1935; died 1998)
[1]
Education
Education
Philosophical work
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Hermeneutic phenomenology[2]
Psychoanalysis
Christian theology
Christian existentialism
Institutions
Doctoral studentsCornelius Castoriadis
Main interestsPhenomenology
Hermeneutics
Philosophy of action
Moral philosophy
Political philosophy
Philosophy of language
Personal identity
Narrative identity
Historiography
Literary criticism
Ancient philosophy
Notable ideasPsychoanalysis as a hermeneutics of the Subject, theory of metaphor, metaphors as having "split references" (one side referring to something not antecedently accessible to language),[a][4] criticism of structuralism, productive imagination, social imaginary,[5] retroactive reference,[6] the "school of suspicion" in philosophy

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."[7]

  1. ^ Marcelino Agís Villaverde, Knowledge and Practical Reason: Paul Ricoeur's Way of Thinking, LIT Verlag Münster, 2012, p. 20.
  2. ^ Don Ihde, Hermeneutic Phenomenology: The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Northwestern University Press, 1971, p. 198.
  3. ^ P. Ricœur, The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language, Routledge, 2003, pp. 5, 265ff., 362ff.
  4. ^ Carl R. Hausman, Metaphor and Art: Interactionism and Reference in the Verbal and Nonverbal Arts, CUP Archive, 1989, pp. 105–6; Kaplan 2003, pp. 48–9.
  5. ^ Ricœur, P., "L'imagination dans le disocurs et dans l'action", in Ricœur, P., Du texte à l'action. Essais d'herméneutique II, Paris, Seuil (translated as "Imagination in Discourse and in Action," in Ricoeur, P., From Text to Action, Blamey K and Thompson J (trans.), Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois).
  6. ^ David M. Kaplan (ed.), Reading Ricoeur, SUNY Press, 2008, p. 151.
  7. ^ "Paul Ricœur". Inamori Foundation. Archived from the original on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2012.


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