Jean Wahl
Jean Wahl (born May 25, 1888 in Marseille , † June 19, 1974 in Paris ) was a French philosopher . He taught from 1936 to 1967 as a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, with a brief interruption, however, because he was taken to a concentration camp as a Jew during World War II , until he finally fled to the USA.
With support from the Rockefeller Foundation , he and Gustave Cohen founded a university in exile in New York, the École Libre des Hautes Études .
At the beginning of his career he was a follower of Henri Bergson , the American philosopher William James and George Santayana . Wahl was also very interested in Søren Kierkegaard and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , he is also one of the co-founders of French Hegelianism in the 1930s.
He influenced a number of key philosophers, including Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre .
Works
- Le malheur de la conscience dans la philosophie de Hegel. 1929
- Études kierkegaardiennes. 1938
- as editor
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Deucalion. Cahiers de philosophy. Total 4 volumes. 1946-1952.
- No. 1 & 2 published by Éd. de la Revue Fontaine, 1946, 1947
- Issue 3 & 4 in Vlg. À la Baconniere, Neuchatel 1950, 1952
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Wahl in the catalog of the German National Library
Footnotes
- ↑ Emmanuel Levinas, Outside the subject, Stanford 1987
- ↑ The title refers to the Greek messenger of the gods Deucalion and the great flood caused by him, a kind of deluge. The publishing house, which emerged from the Resistance , saw the situation in the world in 1946 as comparable to Mallarmé . The intellectual elite of the post-war period published in the 4 volumes, including some German-language authors (e.g. Hannah Arendt , Karl Jaspers and others) in translations
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Choice, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1974 |
| Place of death | Paris |