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(2006) Palgrave advances in continental political thought, Dordrecht, Springer.
Undoubtedly one of the most distinguished Continental philosophers and leading hermeneutic thinkers of the twentieth century, Jean Paul Gustave Ricoeur (1913–2005) was born in Valence, France. Having lost his already widowed father in the Great War, the young Ricoeur was raised as a pupille de la nation. Nourished by the Protestant education he received, his participation in the socialist youth movement and the existential and phenomenological currents of thought reigning in French intellectual life in the 1930s, his intellectual and political conscience soon developed as a singular amalgam of pacifism and socialism. Captured early in World War II, Ricoeur was allowed access as a prisoner of war to German philosophy, which he also taught to his fellow prisoners. His thorough explorations of the writings of Husserl, Heidegger and Jaspers during his five-year captivity were soon reflected in his work published in the immediate postwar years: Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l"existence (1947), Gabriel Marcel et Karl Jaspers: philosophie du mystère et philosophie du paradoxe (1948), and his translation and authoritative commentary on Husserl's Ideen (1950).
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Akrivoulis, D. E. (2006)., Paul Ricoeur, in T. Carver & J. Martin (eds.), Palgrave advances in continental political thought, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 229-243.
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