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Social Sciences and Humanities
France
2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
75
Citations
50876
World Ranking
520
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 1999 - International Balzan Prize

Overview

Paul Ricœur was affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their academic work spanned multiple disciplines, notably including sociology and political science, philosophy, general health professions, religious studies, and literature and literary theory.

Themes central to Ricœur's research encompassed hermeneutics and narrative identity, health, medicine and society, biblical studies and interpretation, theology and canon law studies, historical and linguistic studies, multicultural socio-legal studies, and ethics in medical practice.

The following papers were among those published by Ricœur, detailing their recent scholarly contributions:

  • La question coloniale, 2021, Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies
  • Constructing Comparables, 2022, Theory Culture & Society
  • The Question of the Colonies, 2021, Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies
  • Die politische Macht. Das Ende des Theologisch-Politischen?, 2020, Evangelische Theologie

Ricœur's frequent coauthors included Hannah Arendt, Georges Fradier, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Nicolas Treiber, and Gabríel Marcel.

Their work appeared in several publication venues with multiple contributions to:

  • Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies
  • Theory Culture & Society
  • Philosophie Magazine
  • Evangelische Theologie
  • Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion

Ricœur also authored books, including the forthcoming "Amour et Justice" published by Mohr Siebeck eBooks, scheduled for 2025.

The scholarly record notes receipt of the International Balzan Prize in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Time and narrative

    Paul Ricoeur;Kathleen Mclaughlin;David Pellauer

  • The Rule of Metaphor : Multi-disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language

    Paul Ricoeur;Robert Czerny;Kathleen Mclaughlin;John Costello

  • The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language

    Peter Lamarque;Paul Ricoeur;Robert Czerny;Kathleen McLaughlin

  • Ideología y utopía

    Paul Ricoeur;George H. Taylor;Alberto Luis Bixio

  • Hermeneutics and the human sciences

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Freud and Philosophy an Essay on Interpretation

    Paul Ricoeur;Denis Savage

  • Time and Narrative

    Unknown

  • The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation

    Paul Ricoeur;John B. Thompson

  • From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics II

    Paul Ricoeur;Richard Kearney

  • Time and Narrative, Vol. 1.

    Joseph R. Gusfield;Paul Ricoeur;Kathleen McLaughlin;David Pellauer

  • Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology

    Paul Ricoeur;David Carr;Edward G. Ballard;Lester E. Embree

  • The rule of metaphor

    Harrison Hall;Paul Ricoeur;Robert Czerny

  • La métaphore vive

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Narrative Time

    Unknown

  • La mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Temps et récit

    Paul Ricoeur

  • The conflict of interpretations : essays in hermeneutics

    Neil Wilson;Paul Ricoeur;Don Ihde

  • The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination and Feeling

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Freud and Philosophy

    Paul Ricoeur

  • LIFE IN QUEST OF NARRATIVE

    Paul Ricoeur

  • La memoria, la historia, el olvido

    Paul Ricoeur

  • The conflict of interpretations

    Hans-Georg Gadamer;Paul Ricoeur

  • Sí mismo como otro

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning

    Martin A. Bertman;Paul Ricoeur

Frequent Co-Authors

David Carr
David Carr University of Edinburgh
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer Heidelberg University
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre Boston University
Richard Kearney
Richard Kearney Boston College

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