About Paul Ricœur
Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur 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." Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (; French:; 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics. Ricœur also joined the Esprit magazine, which had been founded in 1932 by Emmanuel Mounier. In 1935, Paul was awarded the second-highest agrégation mark in the nation for philosophy, presaging a bright future. From 1965 to 1970, Ricœur was an administrator at the newly founded University of Paris X: Nanterre in suburban Paris.
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