Paul Ricœur (February 27, 1913 Valence France – May 20, 2005 Chatenay Malabry France) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. As such, he is connected to two other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Wikipedia
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Paul Ricoeur was among the most impressive philosophers of the 20th century, both in the unusual breadth and depth of his philosophical scholarship and in the innovative nature of his thought. www.iep.utm.edu/r/ricoeur.htm
Ricoeur's other recent major work: Memory, History, Forgetting (Univ. of Chicago Press) (with overview and table of contents) Ricoeur, La Mmoire, l'Histoire, L'Oubli Published Sept. 8, 2000 by Editions du Seuil. www.theology.ie/thinkers/ricoeur.htm