Last name: Ricoeur
Name/names: Paul
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Born: 27 February 1913 (Valence, France)
Died: 20 maj 2005 (Paris, France)
Category: Science / Religion.
Ricoeur Paul – ur. 27 II 1913, Valence, franc. French philosopher; prof. m.in. Uniw. in Paris and Chicago, activist of the Synod of the French Church of the Gospel-Reformed and the Federation of Churches Protest. in France.
Starting from phenomenology e. Husserl and the philosophy of existence G. Marcela i K. Jaspersa, Ricoeur cultivates hermeneutics rejecting the system structure, Instead, he uses the phenomenology of religion, linguistics, psychoanalysis and biblical exegesis. Ricoeur's work is arranged in 3 Cycles of work: focused around the interpretation of the field of human will (freedom, necessity, another, evil), around “interpretation conflict” (Demistification proposed by K. Marx, F. Nietzsche and S. Freuda in opposition to the phenomenology of the sacred) and around the theory “live metaphor” (ontological grounding of the language). Hermeneutics Ricoeura is aimed at examining the universal semantic structure of the symbol in the fields, in which he most often appears: in the language of desires, in the symbolism of evil and in the products of the poet's imagination.; History and truth (1955), Philosophy of volunt (t. 1 3 1950 60), Evil symbolism (1960, wide. pol. 1986), The interpretation conflict (1969), Metaphore lives (1975), Essays on Biblical Interpretations (1980), Time and story (t. 1 2 1983); pol. Elections of letters: Existence and hermeneutics (1975), Tongue, text, interpretation (1989), According to hope. Readings, sketches, studies (1991).
Ricoeur – A declared pacifist and opponent of totalitarianism – was mobilized in 1939 and spent four years in Germany in a prisoner -of -war camp. After the war he became a professor – Sorbonne first, Then the University of Nanterre near Paris, Where did the student revolt come from in May 1968. W 1970 he resigned. Many European and American universities sought about the ricoeura-lecturer. He lectured at universities in Chicago and Yale, in Montreal, in Louvain and Geneva.