hermeneutics of suspicion

Is a term coined by the philosopher Paul RicoeurPaul Ricoeur (A.D. 1913–2005) was a French philosopher who was distinguished for revolutionizing the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology to be... to identify a method of interpreting cultural phenomena by seeking to uncover hidden or suppressed sources for the belief or activity being examined. Marx, NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), declared that God is dead, and the intellectuals of his day had killed him. With the death of God, nihilism was bor..., and Freud based much of their philosophy on the contention that a great deal of human behavior stems from repressed or covert stimuli.