Born:Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur, 27 February 1913, Valence, Drôme, France
Died:20 May 2005(2005-05-20) (aged 92), Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Region:Western philosophy
School:Continental philosophy, Hermeneutic phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Christian theology, Christian existentialism
Spouse:Simone Lejas (m. 1935; died 1998)
Education:University of Rennes (B.A., 1932), , University of Paris (M.A., 1934; Ph.D, 1950)
Institutions:University of Strasbourg, , University of Paris, , University of Paris X: Nanterre, , Université catholique de Louvain, , University of Chicago
Other names:"Péric"
Notable ideas:Psychoanalysis as a hermeneutics of the Subject, theory of metaphor, metaphors as having "split references" (one side referring to something not antecedently accessible to language), [a] criticism of structuralism, productive imagination, social imaginary, retroactive reference, the "school of suspicion" in philosophy
Main interests:Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of action, Moral philosophy, Political philosophy, Philosophy of language, Personal identity, Narrative identity, Historiography, Literary criticism, Ancient philosophy
Political party:SFIO
Doctoral students:Cornelius Castoriadis, François Laruelle, Jean-Luc Nancy