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Paul 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 and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

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birth date
1913-02-27
birth place
Valence Drôme, France
death date
2005-05-20
death place
France, Châtenay-Malabry
era
20th-century philosophy
individualised GND number
118600613
influenced
John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida, Michel Henry
influenced by
Martin Heidegger
main interest
Ancient philosophy, Ethics, Historiography, Political philosophy, Philosophy of language, Action theory (philosophy), Literary criticism, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology (philosophy), Personal identity, Narrative identity
notableIdea
Structuralism, Hermeneutics
philosophicalSchool
Psychoanalysis, Continental philosophy, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology (philosophy), Christian theology
region
Western philosophy

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