PHILOSOPHER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Ricœur has received more than 690,326 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Ricœur is the 180th most popular philosopher (down from 167th in 2019), the 406th most popular biography from France (down from 350th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Philosopher.

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

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  • 69.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Paul Ricœur ranks 180 out of 1,267. Before him are Xun Kuang, Ernest Renan, Proclus, Karl Kautsky, Posidonius, and Pierre Bayle. After him are José Ortega y Gasset, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Marquis de Condorcet, Apollonius of Tyana, Moses Mendelssohn, and Bernard Bolzano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Paul Ricœur ranks 17. Before him are Claude Simon, Jesse Owens, Klaus Barbie, Gustáv Husák, Burt Lancaster, and Ramón Mercader. After him are Willis Lamb, Makarios III, Sabiha Gökçen, Benjamin Britten, Kenzō Tange, and Lon Nol. Among people deceased in 2005, Paul Ricœur ranks 12. Before him are Arthur Miller, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Claude Simon, Rinus Michels, Peter Drucker, and Hans Bethe. After him are Simon Wiesenthal, Rafic Hariri, Omar Sívori, Ezer Weizman, Kenzō Tange, and Zhao Ziyang.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Ricœur ranks 406 out of 6,770. Before him are Camille Desmoulins (1760), Gaspard Monge (1746), Robert I of France (860), Pierre Bayle (1647), Patrice de MacMahon (1808), and Jean Lannes (1769). After him are Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Marcel Marceau (1923), Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), and André Masséna (1758).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Paul Ricœur ranks 20. Before him are Charles Fourier (1772), Jean Buridan (1295), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Ernest Renan (1823), and Pierre Bayle (1647). After him are Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714).

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