Émile Bréhier
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Émile Bréhier (1876-1952) 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.
Bréhier was Henri Bergson's successor at the Sorbonne, in 1944. The historian Louis Bréhier was his brother.
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[edit] Views
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].
[edit] Works
- 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 age (three volumes), II La philosophie moderne (four volumes)
- Histoire de la philosophie, fascicule supplémentaire: la philosophie en Orient (1948) with P. Masson-Oursel
- Chrysippe et l'ancien stoicisme (Paris, 1951)
- Études de philosophie antique (1955)
[edit] References
- Alan D. Schrift (2006), Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes And Thinkers, p. 107
[edit] Notes
- ^ Paul Andrew Passavant, Jodi Dean, Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri (2004), p. 218.
- ^ http://classics.dal.ca/Faculty%20and%20Staff/Neoplatonism_and_Con.php; 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.
