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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 643,552 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Paul Ricœur is the 167th most popular philosopher (down from 166th in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from France (down from 339th in 2019) and the 17th 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 167 out of 1,081Before him are Padmasambhava, Cesare Beccaria, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Marshall McLuhan. After him are Chrysippus, Porphyry, Max Scheler, Jean Buridan, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, and Karl Kautsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Paul Ricœur ranks 15Before him are Robert Capa, Josef Bican, Jesse Owens, Burt Lancaster, Claude Simon, and Klaus Barbie. After him are Ramón Mercader, Gustáv Husák, Benjamin Britten, Sabiha Gökçen, Makarios III, and Lon Nol. Among people deceased in 2005, Paul Ricœur ranks 9Before him are Rosa Parks, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Peter Drucker, George Best, Claude Simon, and Fahd of Saudi Arabia. After him are Simon Wiesenthal, Arthur Miller, Rinus Michels, Pat Morita, Zhao Ziyang, and Saul Bellow.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Ricœur ranks 350 out of 6,011Before him are Jean Arp (1886), Gustave Moreau (1826), Jeanne d'Albret (1528), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), and Roger Martin du Gard (1881). After him are James I of Aragon (1208), Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Alfred Binet (1857), Constantine II (316), and Jeanne Moreau (1928).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Paul Ricœur ranks 17Before him are Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Charles Fourier (1772), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Simone Weil (1909), Jean Baudrillard (1929), and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908). After him are Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Ernest Renan (1823), and Pierre Bayle (1647).