Pierre-Maxime Schuhl

Pierre-Maxime Schuhl (born June 28, 1902 in Paris ; † May 5, 1984 there ) was a French philosopher and university professor .

Schuhl studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and received his doctorate in 1934 with a thesis on ancient Greek philosophy. He taught first in Montpellier and then as a professor in Toulouse. Eventually he was appointed to the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he had headed the Department of Philosophy since 1962. In 1970 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . His studies focus on the history of ancient philosophy and especially Plato as well as in the field of aesthetics. He has also edited a collection of stoic writings from antiquity that Émile Bréhier was unable to complete.

Works

• Platon et l'art de son temps , Alcan, Paris 1933 (2nd expanded edition, PUF, Paris 1952).
• Essai on the formation de la pensée grecque. Introduction historique à une étude de la philosophie platonicienne , Alcan, Paris 1934 (2nd expanded edition, PUF, Paris 1949).
• Machinisme et philosophie , Alcan, Paris 1938 (2nd expanded edition, PUF, Paris 1947).
• Etudes sur la fabulation platonicienne , PUF, Paris 1947.
• L'œuvre de Platon , Hachette, Paris 1954.
• Etudes platoniciennes , PUF, Paris 1960.
• Les Stoïciens. Traduit du latin et du grec ancien by Émile Bréhier et Pierre-Maxime Schuhl et révisé by P. Aubenque , Louis Bourgey, J. Brunschwig , V. Goldschmidt , P. Kucharski and J. Pépin . Edition publiée sous la direction de Pierre-Maxime Schuhl. (= Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 156), Gallimard, Paris 1962. Reprint in two volumes (= Collection Tel), Gallimard, Paris 1997.
• Imaginer et réaliser , PUF, Paris 1963.
• L'imagination et le merveilleux, la pensée et l'action , Flammarion, Paris 1969.

Web links

• Literature by and about Pierre-Maxime Schuhl in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)