Edouard Morot-Sir

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Édouard Barthelemy Morot-Sir (* 1910 in Autun , † June 27, 1993 in New York ) was a French diplomat, philosopher, Romance scholar and literary scholar who worked in the United States.

life and work

Morot-Sir completed his habilitation in 1947 (after military service and imprisonment) with the two Thèses La pensée négative. Recherche logique sur sa structure et ses démarches (Paris 1947) and Philosophy et mystique. Etudes métaphysiques (Paris 1948). He taught at the Universities of Lille, Bordeaux and Cairo. In the service of the French Foreign Ministry he was head of the Fulbright Commission in New York from 1952 to 1956 , and from 1956 to 1969 cultural attaché of the embassy. From 1969 to 1972 he was Professor of French Literature at the University of Arizona at Tucson and from 1972 to 1982 Kenon Junior Professor of French Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . With René Le Senne he gave the Caractères series . Caractérologie et analyze de la personnalité (Paris 1950-1977).

Morot-Sir was a Knight of the Legion of Honor . In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Other works

  • (with Antoine Adam and Georges Lerminier ), Littérature française, 2 vols., Paris 1967-1968, 1971
  • La Pensée française d'aujourd'hui, Paris 1971
  • (Ed.) René Le Senne (1882-1954), Traité de caractérologie, 8th edition, Paris 1973, 1979, 1984, 1989
  • La métaphysique de Pascal, Paris 1973
  • Pascal, Paris 1973
  • "Les Mots" by Jean-Paul Sartre, Paris 1975
  • (Ed. With Howard Harper and Dougald McMillan III) Samuel Beckett, The art of rhetoric, Chapel Hill 1976
  • (with Germaine Brée ) Du Surréalisme à l'empire de la critique, Paris 1984, 1990, 1996 (Littérature française, edited by Claude Pichois , vol. 9; 1996 ud T. Histoire de la littérature française)
  • The imagination of reference, 2 vol., Gainesville (Fla) 1993-1995
  • La raison et la grace selon Pascal, Paris 1996

literature

  • Literature between philosophy and history. In memoriam Edouard Morot-Sir 1910-1993, Chapel Hill (NC) 1995 (Romance notes 35.3)

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personal data
SURNAME Morot-sir, Edouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morot-Sir, Edouard Barthelemy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher, Romance scholar and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Autun
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1993
Place of death New York City