Maurice de Gandillac

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Maurice Patronnier de Gandillac (born February 14, 1906 in Koléa , Algiers department , † April 20, 2006 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine department ) was a French philosopher , university professor and translator.

Life

Gandillac came from an aristocratic family whose ancestral home is in Périgord . He attended the Préparatoire des Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris with Jean-Paul Sartre , Paul Nizan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty . He was also a fellow student of Sartre and Nizan at the École normal supérieure , where he studied lettres classiques ( classical languages , literature, philosophy) and German. He wrote his thesis on the Renaissance philosopher Nikolaus von Kues . After receiving the license to teach higher schools ( agrégation ) , he first taught philosophy at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine . He then worked from 1946 to 1977 as a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne , where he taught, among others, Louis Althusser , Jean-François Lyotard , Gilles Deleuze , Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida .

plant

Gandillac wrote a broad philosophical work that included books on the Middle Ages , Dante , Cusanus, and the modern age . He provided important translations of the works of Hegel , Nietzsche , Lukac , Bloch and Benjamin into French . He was also co-editor of Nietzsche's complete works in France. Most of his articles were published in 1992 in the anthology Genèses de la modernité . Previously, in 1985, a commemorative publication was published in his honor under the title L'art des confins . His presentation of the philosophy of Nikolaus von Kues appeared in German translation in 1953. The philosopher Alois Dempf judged this work: "It is difficult to think of a better introduction to the Cusan spiritual world." However, Gandillac underestimated the influence of Meister Eckhart on Cusanus.

Fonts

  • Le siècle traversé. Souvenirs de neuf décennies , Albin Michel, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-226-10467-4
  • Genèses de la modernité: Les douze siècles où se fit notre Europe. De "La Cité de Dieu" à "La Nouvelle Atlantide" , Editions du Cerf, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-204-04503-9

literature

  • L'art des confins. Mélanges offerts à Maurice de Gandillac , Publiée sous la direction de Annie Cazenave, PUF, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-13-038526-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In memoriam Maurice de Gandillac. In: Bulletin de philosophie médiévale , Volume 48 (2006), p. 339.
  2. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 63 (1955) 220.
  3. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 63 (1955) 220.
personal data
SURNAME Gandillac, Maurice de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gandillac, Maurice Patronnier de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Koléa , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2006
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris