Léger Marie Deschamps

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Léger Marie Deschamps ( Benedictine name: Dom Deschamps; born January 10, 1716 in Rennes , † April 19, 1774 Montreuil-Bellay ) was a French utopian and philosopher. Deschamps anonymously published two books in which he designed an atheistic utopia free from property and oppression .

Live and act

He entered a Benedictine order in Rennes and made his vows on September 8, 1733. Although he was heterodox in his views on the interpretation of faith , he always remained connected to religious activity in monastic life.

He went to a monastery in Montreuil-Bellay with Samur where he later assumed the office of procurator . He later made the acquaintance of Marc-Pierre d'Argenson , who sponsored him from 1760 and was on friendly terms. Through him he got in contact with Voltaire and several other encyclopedists . Deschamps corresponded u. a. with Rousseau , Helvétius , d'Alembert and Voltaire . He met Denis Diderot personally when he was working on his D'Alembert's dream , Le rêve de D'Alembert (1769); he named Marie Deschamps as a "moine athée" atheist monk.

He died in 1774 in the Montreuil-Bellay monastery.

Works

  • Lettres sur l'esprit du siècle , London, Edouard Young, M. DCC. LXIX
  • Le Vrai Système ou le Mot de l'énigme métaphysique et morale. Facsimile published under the auspices of the Société des textes français modern, by Jean Thomas and Franco Venturi Droz, Paris 1939
  • Observations métaphysiques. ed. by Leana Quilici, Pise, Scuola normal superiore, 1988.
  • Œuvres philosophiques. Introduction and ed. by Bernard Delhaume, with a foreword by d'André Robinet, J. Vrin, Paris 1993.
  • Correspondance générale. établie à partir des archives d'Argenson, avec les Lettres sur l'esprit du siècle , 1769, et La Voix de la raison contre la raison du temps. 1770, introduction, édition et annotation par Bernard Delhaume, préface de Jacques D'Hondt , Honoré Champion, Paris 2006

literature

  • Eric Puisais: Dom Deschamps, un philosophe entre Lumière et oubli. L'Harmattan, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7475-0309-7 .
  • André Robinet: Dom Deschamps, le maître des maîtres du soupçon. Seghers, Paris 1974.
  • Kurt Schnelle: The manuscripts of the Benedictine Dom Léger-Marie Deschamps. A contribution to the history of social ideas in the French Enlightenment. Leipzig 1961.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Puisais: Léger-Marie Deschamps, un philosophe entre Lumières et oubli. Société chauvinoise de philosophie, L'Harmattan, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7475-0309-7 .
  2. ↑ Helmut Holzhey, Vilem Mudroch, Friedrich Ueberweg, Johannes Rohbeck: Outline of the history of philosophy: The philosophy of the 18th century. 2 half floors. Schwabe, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7965-2445-5 , pp. 577-579.
  3. ↑ Jonathan I. Israel: Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-954152-2 , p. 50.
  4. ↑ Annie Ibrahim: Maupertuis dans Le Rêve de D'Alembert: l'essaim d'abeilles et le polype.
personal data
SURNAME Deschamps, Léger Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deschamps, Dom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French utopian and metaphysical philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1774
Place of death Montreuil-Bellay