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)