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Past winners, usually older scholars honored for lifetime achievement, have included the philosophers Jurgen Habermas and Paul Ricoeur and the historians John Hope Franklin and Drew Gilpin Faust.

If, for example, as Ricoeur says, social media effusions are attempts to elevate the mundane, the simple, and the everyday, and lend them special meaning, it begs the question: Why might one feel the need to do this repeatedly, persistently?

Philosopher Paul Ricoeur argued that humans have an inherent need to view their lives in a narrative fashion.

He likes to refer to Paul Ricoeur, the philosopher he worked for as a student.

Ricoeur wrote books about history, memory and forgetting.