Brice Parain

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Brice Parain (* 1897 in Jouarre , Département Seine-et-Marne , † 1971 in Verdelot ) was a French philosopher and essayist who critically accompanied the great intellectual and political currents of his time. He reflected on the communism , the surrealism and the existentialism , the failure of which he was in his early works Essay misère humaine (1934) and Retour à la France forecasted (1936). He dealt intensively with problems of language and the origins and development of words. This is evident from his later works, Recherches sur la nature et la fonction du langage (1943, published in German under the title Investigations on the nature and function of language ) and Sur la dialectique (1953). Charles Blanchard called him the "Sherlock Holmes of Language". He was a close friend of Albert Camus and was involved in Le 14 Juillet magazine against Charles de Gaulle's return to power in 1958.

Remarkable

In Jean-Luc Godard's film The Story of Nana S. Brice Parain played a philosopher who exchanged views on various philosophical issues with the main character in the film.

Works

  • Essai sur la misère humaine , Grasset, Paris 1934.
  • Retour à la France, Grasset , Paris 1936.
  • Recherches sur la nature et les fonctions du langage , Gallimard, 1942; German transl. Studies on the nature and function of language , Stuttgart 1969, Klett-Verlag, ISBN 3-12-906390-0
  • Essai sur le logos platonicien , Gallimard, Paris 1942.
  • La mort de Jean Madec , Grasset, Paris 1945.
  • L'embarras du choix , Gallimard, Paris 1947.
  • La mort de Socrate , Gallimard, Paris 1950.
  • Sur la dialectique , Gallimard, Paris 1953.
  • De fil en aiguille , Gallimard, Paris 1960.
  • Noir sur blanc , Gallimard, Paris 1962.
  • Joseph , Gallimard, Paris 1964.
  • Entretiens avec Bernard Pingaud , Gallimard, Paris 1966.
  • France, marchande d'églises , Gallimard, Paris 1966.
  • Petite métaphysique de la parole , Gallimard, Paris 1969.
  • Le sophiste annoté, suivi de l'Invité de Pierre Pachet , Le nouveau commerce, Paris 1995.
  • Brice Parain, Georges Perros: Correspondance, 1960-1971 , Gallimard, Paris 1998.

Secondary literature

  • Jean-Paul Sartre: "Aller et Retour" in: ders. Situations I , Paris: Gallimard, 1992 [EA 1948], pp. 175-225
  • Pierre Klossowski: "Le langage, le Silence, et le communisme" in: Critique , n ° 37, June 1949
  • G. Perros: "Avec Brice Parain" in: Critique , n ° 169, juin 1961
  • H. Lemaître: Brice Parain , Paris, 1968
  • Homage to Brice Parain, La nouvelle revue française , n ° 223, 1971
  • Brice Parain: Un homme de parole , ed. by Marianne Besseyre, Paris: Gallimard, 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Parain, Brice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Jouarre
DATE OF DEATH 1971
Place of death Verdelot