Georges Gusdorf
Georges Gusdorf (* 1912 near Bordeaux ; † October 17, 2000 ) was a French philosopher and epistemologist .
Career
Gusdorf studied at the École normal supérieure in Paris with Gaston Bachelard and at the Sorbonne with Léon Brunschvicg . He spent the years 1940 to 1945 in German captivity. On his return he became a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg .
From 1966 to 1988 the Payot & Rivages publishing house published 14 volumes of his major encyclopedic project Les sciences humaines et la pensée occidentale :
- Volume 1: De l'histoire des sciences à l'histoire de la pensée , 1966
- Volume 2: Les origines des sciences humaines , 1967
- Volume 3: La révolution Galiléenne , 2 parts, 1969
- Volume 4: Les principes de la pensée au siècle des lumières , 1971
- Volume 5: Dieu, la nature, l'homme au siècle des lumières , 1972
- Volume 6: L'avènement des sciences humaines au siècle des lumières , 1973
- Volume 7: Naissance de la conscience romantique au siècle des lumières , 1976
- Volume 8: La conscience révolutionnaire: les idéologues , 1978
- Volume 9: Fondements du savoir romantique , 1982
- Volume 10: Du néant à Dieu dans le savoir romantique , 1983
- Volume 11: L'homme romantique , 1984
- Volume 12: Le savoir romantique de la nature , 1985
- Volume 13: Les origines de l'herméneutique , 1988
In 2002 Gusdorf's autobiography, Le crépuscule des illusions , was published posthumously . Mémoires intempestifs .
Works in German translation
- Why teacher? Translated and provided by Ludwig Schmidts. Paderborn: Schöningh 1970 ( digitized version of the French edition Pourquoi des professeurs? Pour une pédagogie de la pédagogie )
- The theological ferment in the Enlightenment culture. In: Siegfried Jüttner and Jochen Schlobach (eds.): European Enlightenment (en). Unity and national diversity. Translation by Andreas Gelz and Jochen Schlobach. Hamburg: Meiner 1992. pp. 26-39. (on-line)
literature
- A. De Cock: The synthesis idea in Georges Gusdorf. In: Leo Apostle ; Emiel August Leemans; André van de Vyver (ed.): Studia Philosophica Gandensia 3. Gent 1965. pp. 5-53. (online) (PDF file; 2.72 MB)
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SURNAME | Gusdorf, Georges |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philosopher and epistemologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1912 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | near Bordeaux |
DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 2000 |