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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." Wikipedia  

✵ 27. February 1913 – 20. May 2005
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Paul Ricoeur Quotes

Paul Ricoeur quote: “I find myself only by losing myself.”

“I find myself only by losing myself.”

Paul Ricoeur

“If we go back to the intention [ Marx, Nietzsche and Freud] had in common, we find in it the decision to look upon the whole of consciousness primarily as "false" consciousness.”

Paul Ricoeur book Freud and Philosophy

Freud and Philosophy (1970), p. 33

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