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Paul Rico
Ricoeur, Paul (b. 1913). Born and raised in the west of France, Paul Ricoeur has occupied the position of professor of philosophy at the Universities of Strasbourg and Paris (the Sorbonne, Nanterre) and has been a visiting professor at numerous other universities, the University of Chicago in particular. He is the recipient of over thirty honorary degrees from universities throughout the world. A younger contemporary of Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur is the best known French representative of
phenomenological hermeneutics. A French Protestant, Ricoeur has written extensively on religious and theological issues, although he is best known to the general public for his
work in philosophy. The three principal sources of influence on his philosophical thinking in the 1930s and 1940s were existential philosophy (Gabriel Marcel, Karl Jaspers), the
tradition of French reflective philosophy, and German phenomenology (Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger).
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