Jean-Marie Guyau

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Jean-Marie Guyau (born October 28, 1854 in Laval , † March 31, 1888 in Menton ) was a French philosopher and poet .

Life

Inspired by poetry and philosophy, he read all the great texts by Hugo , Corneille , Musset , Epiktet , Plato and Kant and translated Epictet's handbook . He taught at the Lycée Condorcet and then moved to southern France for health reasons, where he lived until his untimely death. He was the son of Augustine Tuillerie , who published Le Tour de France par deux enfants in 1877 in 1877. His wife published children's books under the pseudonym Pierre Ulric. As a philosopher, Guyau was together with Alfred Fouillée the most important exponent of philosophical evolutionism .

Works (selection)

  • Essai sur la morale littéraire. 1873.
  • Première année de lecture courante. 1875.
  • Morale d'Epicure. 1878.
  • Morale anglaise contemporaine. 1879, German The English ethics of the present. Kröner, Leipzig 1914.
  • Vers d'un philosophe. German: verses of a philosopher . 1912.
  • Problèmes de l'esthétique contemporaine. 1884, German The aesthetic problems of the present. Leipzig 1912.
  • Esquisse d'une morale sans obligation ni sanction. 1884. German morality without 'duty'. Translated into German by Elisabeth Schwarz. With a biographically critical introduction written for the German edition by Alfred Fouillée and previously unprinted marginal notes by Friedrich Nietzsche , 1912
  • Irréligion de l'avenir. 1886, German The irreligion of the future: sociological study. Leipzig 1910, English: The Non-religion of the future. New York 1962
  • Education et Heredité. Etude sociologique. Paris: Alcan, 1889, German: Upbringing and inheritance. 1913.
  • La genèse de l'idée de temps. Avec une introd. by Alfred Fouillée. Alcan, Paris 1890, German: The emergence of the concept of time. Cuxhaven [u. a.]: Traude Junghans, 1995
  • L'art au point de vue sociologique. 2nd volumes, Alcan, Paris 1889, German: Art as a sociological phenomenon. Leipzig: Klinkhardt, 1911 - New translation: Berlin, Wissenschaftsverlag Spiess, 1987.

Work edition: Philosophical works. translated by E. Bergmann , 6 volumes, 1912-14.

literature

  • Michael C. Behrent, Le débat Guyau-Durkheim sur la théorie sociologique de la religion, Archives de sciences sociales des religions no.142, avr.-juin 2008, 9-26.
  • Ernst Bergmann : The Guyaus philosophy . Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1912
  • Alfred Fouillée: La morale, l'art et la religion d'aprés Guyau. 11th edition Felix Alcan, Paris 1918.
  • Johann H. Hablitzel: Philosophy of Life and Education with Jean-Marie Guyau (1854–1888). A contribution to the history of educational sociology. University, Bonn 1987 (dissertation).
  • Frank JW Harding: Jean-Marie Guyau (1854-1888). Aesthetician and sociologist; a study of his aesthetic theory and critical practice. Droz, Geneva 1973 (Histoire des idées et critique litteraire; 136).
  • Dirk Hoeges : Literature and Evolution. Studies of French literary criticism in the 19th century. Taine , Brunetière , Hennequin , Guyau. Winter, Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 3-533-02857-7 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Bonn)
  • Hans E. Lampl (Ed.): Two voices - unanimity? Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Marie Guyau. Junghans, Cuxhaven 1990, ISBN 3-926848-13-8 , (Nietzscheana; 1).
  • Hans Pfeil: Jean-Marie Guyau and the Philosophy of Life , Philosophical dissertation from 1926, in the Dr. Benno Filser Verlag, 1928
  • Jordi Riba: La morale anomique de Jean-Marie Guyau. L'Harmattan, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7384-7772-0 .
  • Marco Orru: The Ethics of Anomie. Jean Marie Guyau and Émile Durkheim . In: British Journal of Sociology. Vol. 34 (1983), no. 4 (December), pp. 499-518.
  • Ilse Walther-Dulk: Materials on the Philosophy and Aesthetics of Jean-Marie Guyau. Publishing house Die Brigantine, Hamburg 1965.
  • Ilse Walther-Dulk: Proust, Guyau and the poetry of the time. A search for clues. VDG, Weimar 2005, ISBN 978-3-89739-568-8 .
  • Ilse Walther-Dulk: Jean -Marie Guyau Esquisse d'une Morale sans Obligation ni Sanction - Reconstruction of the critical reading by Friedrich Nietzsche. Marginalia edition, VDG Weimar, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89739-720-0 .
  • Use Walther-Dulk. Nietzsche, Onfray and the young Guyau - A correction, VDG Weimar, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89739-852-8

Web links

Wikisource: Jean-Marie Guyau  - Sources and full texts (French)

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personal data
SURNAME Guyau, Jean-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Laval
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1888
Place of death Menton