Émile Bréhier
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Émile Bréhier (French: [bʁeje]; 12 April 1876, Bar-le-Duc – 3 February 1952, Paris) was a French philosopher. His interest was in classical philosophy, and the history of philosophy. He wrote a Histoire de la Philosophie, translated into English in seven volumes.
Life[edit]
Bréhier studied at the University of Paris. He was Henri Bergson's successor at the University of Paris in 1945. The historian Louis Bréhier was his brother.
Thought[edit]
He was an early follower of Bergson; in the 1930s there was an influential view that Bergsonism and Neoplatonism were linked.[1]
He has been called "the sole figure in the French history who adopts an Hegelian interpretation of Neoplatonism",[2] but also a Neo-Kantian opponent of Hegel.[3]
Works[edit]
- Schelling (1912)
- Histoire de la philosophie allemande (1921)
- La Philosophie de Plotin
- Plotin: Ennéades (with French translation), Collection Budé, 1924–1938
- Histoire de la philosophie - I Antiquité et moyen âge (three volumes), II La philosophie moderne (four volumes)
- La philosophie du moyen âge (1949)
- Le monde byzantin - la civilisation byzantine (1950)
- Chrysippe et l'ancien stoïcisme (Paris, 1951)
- Études de philosophie antique (1955)
Notes[edit]
- ^ Paul Andrew Passavant, Jodi Dean, Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri (2004), p. 218.
- ^ Hankey p. 120 in Jean-Marc Narbonne, W. J. Hankey, Levinas and the Greek Heritage & One Hundred Years of Neoplatonism in France (2006).
- ^ Bruce Baugh, French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism (2003), note p. 183.
References[edit]
- Alan D. Schrift (2006), Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes And Thinkers, p. 107.
External links[edit]
- IDIH page
- (French) Biography
- Oeuvres sur les classiques des sciences sociales fr:Les classiques des sciences sociales
