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Ricoeur’s Negotiated Settlements

Fred Dallmayr on the conciliatory and original Paul Ricoeur, who died in May.

Yet another giant of twentieth-century philosophy has passed from the scene. On 20 May Paul Ricoeur died in his sleep in Chatenay-Malabry, France, at the age of 92. His death comes on the heels of a series of recent departures: Hans-Georg Gadamer in 2002, Jacques Derrida in 2004. Anyone who has been touched by the work of these thinkers cannot but feel a sense of great loss and deep mourning – a sense of being orphaned.

Ricoeur was born in 1913, before the outbreak of World War I.

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