Étienne Souriau

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Étienne Souriau (born April 26, 1892 in Lille , † November 19, 1979 in Paris ) was a French philosopher and aesthetician.

biography

After a year of military service, Souriau studied, like his father, Paul Souriau, at the ENS in Paris. He was drafted into the war in 1914 and was finally able to resign from his agrégation in 1920 after a four-year war . As a result, he began teaching in schools in Sarreguemines and Chartres . After receiving his doctorate in 1925, he taught at the universities of Aix-en Provence (1925–1929), Lyon (1929–1941) and finally at the Sorbonne. In 1945 he was appointed professor of aesthetics, succeeding Charles Lalo .

Souriau was an important exponent of the institutional philosophical aesthetic. He was president of the Société française d'esthétique , editor of the Revue d'esthétique and president of the Comité international pour les Études d'esthétique . Since 1958 he was a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . His contributions to the major project Vocabulaire d'esthétique were published posthumously in 1990 by his daughter Anne Souriau.

Souriau was a founding member of the Association Française pour la Recherche Filmologique in 1946. He developed with a filmological working group a vocabulary for the newly founded filmological school, which was published in 1951 in the Revue International de Filmologie .

Bruno Latour refers to modes of existence in 2014 Souriau The different modes of existence.

Fonts (selection)

1. German

  • "Art and philosophical foresight", in: Philosophische Perspektiven, 4.1972, 137–150.
  • The different modes of existence. With an introduction by Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour, translated by Thomas Wäckerle, Lüneburg 2009. (Text available online)
  • The cinematic universe. Writings on the aesthetics of the cinema. Fink 2020.

2. French

  • L'abstraction sentimentale, Paris, 1925 (new edition: Paris, 1951).
  • Pensée vivante et perfection formelle, Paris, 1925 (new edition: Paris, 1952).
  • L'avenir de l'esthétique, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1929.
  • Art et vérité, Paris, Alcan, 1933.
  • Avoir une âme, Paris, Belles-Lettres, 1939.
  • L'instauration philosophique, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1939.
  • Les différents modes d'existence, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1943.
    • German translation: The different modes of existence. With an introduction by Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour, translated by Thomas Wäckerle, Lüneburg 2009. (Text available online)
    • Italian translation: I differenti modi d'esisstenza: e altri testi sull'ontologia dell'arte. Milano, Udine: Mimesis, 2017. (Mimesis - Discorso figura. Nuova serie; 16)
  • La correspondance des arts, Paris, Flammarion, 1947.
    • Italian translation: La corrispondenza delle arti: elementi di estetica comparata. Firenze: Alinea, 1988. (Saggi e documenti; 71: Sezione: Materiali per la storia dell'estetica)
  • "Nature et limite des contributions positives de l'esthétique à la filmologie", in: Revue internationale de filmologie 1, 1947, pp. 47–64.
    • German translation (by Frank Kessler): "Contributions of aesthetics to filmology - their nature and limits", in: Montage AV 12,1, 2003, pp. 72–93.
  • Les fonctions psychologiques des œuvres d'après Meyerson, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1948.
  • Les deux cent mille situations dramatiques, Paris, Flammarion, 1950.
  • "Les grands caractères de l'univers filmique", in: L'univers filmique. Ed. V. Étienne Souriau. Paris: Flammarion 1953, pp. 11-31.
  • L'ombre de Dieu, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1955.
  • Les grandsproblemèmes de l'esthétique théâtrale, Paris, Center de documentation universitaire, 1956.
  • La condition humaine vue à travers l'art, Paris, Center de documentation universitaire, 1956.
  • Les catégories esthétiques, Paris, Center de documentation universitaire, 1956.
  • Les structures de l'œuvre d'art, Paris, Center de documentation universitaire, 1956.
  • La poésie française et la peinture, London, Athlone Press, 1966.
  • La correspondance des arts. Éléments d'un esthétique comparée, Paris, Flammarion, 1969.
  • Vocabulaire d'esthétique, éd. Anne Souriau, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Étienne Souriau . In: Trivium. Revue franco-allemande de sciences humaines et sociales - Franco-German magazine for the humanities and social sciences . May 2, 2010, ISSN  1963-1820 ( openedition.org [accessed August 22, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Frank Kessler: Etienne Souriau and the vocabulary of the filmological school. (PDF) In: montage / av. 1997, accessed August 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Wäckerle: Notes from the translator . In: Étienne Souriau: The different modes of existence . 2015, ISBN 978-3-95796-015-3 , pp. 223 .
  4. ↑ Étienne Souriau: The different modes of existence. (PDF) In: Meson Press. Accessed August 2018 .
  5. ↑ Étienne Souriau: The different modes of existence. (PDF) In: Meson Press. Accessed August 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Souriau, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher and esthete
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Lille
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 1979
Place of death Paris