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Paul Ricœur

1913 - 2005

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Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Ricœur is the 163rd most popular philosopher (up from 180th in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from France (up from 406th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Philosopher.

Paul Ricœur is most famous for his work on hermeneutics, which is the study of interpretation.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Paul Ricœur ranks 163 out of 1,267. Before him are Clement of Alexandria, Max Stirner, Max Scheler, Hans Kelsen, Ibn Tufail, and Oswald Spengler. After him are Herbert Marcuse, Athanasius Kircher, Melissus of Samos, Ferdinand Tönnies, Adi Shankara, and Ernst Cassirer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Paul Ricœur ranks 13. Before him are Menachem Begin, Jean Marais, Robert Capa, Burt Lancaster, Klaus Barbie, and Claude Simon. After him are Josef Bican, Willis Lamb, Jesse Owens, Bảo Đại, Gustáv Husák, and Ramón Mercader. Among people deceased in 2005, Paul Ricœur ranks 10. Before him are Kocheril R. Narayanan, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Claude Simon, Arthur Miller, and George Best. After him are Peter Drucker, Simon Wiesenthal, Hans Bethe, Rinus Michels, Rafic Hariri, and Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Ricœur ranks 360 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges de La Tour (1593), Philip the Bold (1342), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), Anne of Brittany (1477), Louis Renault (1843), and Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058). After him are Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Luc Montagnier (1932), Denis Papin (1647), Pierre Boulez (1925), Antonin Artaud (1896), and Diane de Poitiers (1499).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Paul Ricœur ranks 15. Before him are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), and Charles Fourier (1772). After him are Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), and Jean Baudrillard (1929).

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