Paul Ricœur
Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (; ; 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,
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."
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