Gilbert Durand
Gilbert Durand (born in 1921) is a French academic known for his work on the imagination and mythology.
He was teacher of philosophy from 1947 to 1956, then professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Grenoble II. Gilbert Durand was the co-founder - with Léon Cellier and Paul Deschamps in 1966 - and the director of the Centre de recherche sur l'imaginaire[1] and a member of Eranos. He participated in the resistance in the Vercors.
He was a follower of Gaston Bachelard, Henry Corbin and Carl Gustav Jung and the teacher of Michel Maffesoli. Gilbert Durand gained a worldwide notoriety and his Center is currently the small group of an international network of over sixty laboratories. In his most famous work, Les Structures anthropologiques de l'imaginaire (1960), he formulated the influential concept of the anthropological trajectory, or anthropological dialectic, according to which there is a bijective influence between physiology and society.[2]
In 1984, Gilbert Durand supervised the thesis by Michel Gaucher on L'Intuition astrologique dans l'imaginaire (Université Grenoble II).
On 14 March 2007, in Chambéry, Durand received from Raymond Aubrac the title of Commander of the Légion d'honneur.
Bibliography
By Gilbert Durand
- Les Structures anthropologiques de l'imaginaire, Paris, Dunod (first edition, Paris, P.U.F., 1960).
- Le Décor mythique de la Chartreuse de Parme, Paris, José Corti (1961)
- L'Imagination symbolique, Paris, PUF (first édition in 1964).
- Sciences de l’homme et tradition. Le nouvel esprit anthropologique, Paris, Albin Michel (first ed. Tête de feuille-Sirac, Paris, 1975).
- Figures mythiques et visages de l’œuvre. De la mythocritique à la mythanalyse, Paris, Berg International, 1979.
- L'Âme tigrée, Paris, Denoël, 1980.
- La Foi du cordonnier, Paris, Denoël, 1984.
- Beaux-arts et archétypes. La religion de l'art, Paris, P.U.F., 1989.
- L’Imaginaire. Essai sur les sciences et la philosophie de l'image, Paris, Hatier, 1994.
- Introduction à la mythodologie. Mythes et sociétés, Paris, Albin Michel, 1996.
- Champs de l’imaginaire. Textes réunis par Danièle Chauvin, Grenoble, Ellug, 1996.
- Les Mythes fondateurs de la franc-maçonnerie, Paris, Dervy, 2002.
- With Simone Vierne, Le Mythe et le Mythique, Paris, Albin Michel, 1987.
- With Sun Chaoying, Mythes, thèmes et variations, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2000.
On Gilbert Durand
- Maffesoli Michel (dir.), La Galaxie de l’imaginaire. Dérive autour de l’œuvre de Gilbert Durand, Paris, Berg international, 1980.
- Pachter Michèle, Gilbert Durand, Sociétés, vol. 1, no 4, juin 1985.
- Durand Jean-Pierre & Robert Weil, Sociologie contemporaine, Paris, Vigot, 1993, pp. 212-215.
- Godinho Helder, « Gilbert Durand » in Thomas Joël (dir.), Introduction aux méthodologies de l'imaginaire, Paris, Ellipses, 1998, pp. 140-149.
- Cabin Philippe, Une cartographie de l’imaginaire : Entretien avec Gilbert Durand, Sciences humaines, janvier 1999.[3]
- Patrice Van Eersel, Le retour des dieux. Entretien avec Gilbert Durand, Nouvelles Clés, 30, été 2001, p. 54-59.[4]
- Bertin Georges, Pour l'Imaginaire, principes et méthodes, Esprit critique, vol. 4 n°2, Février 2002[5]
- Xiberras Martine, Pratique de l'imaginaire. Lecture de Gilbert Durand, Laval, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2002.
References
- ^ Centre de recherche sur l'imaginaire (CRI)
- ^ quotation:
genèse réciproque qui oscille du geste pulsionnel à l'environnement matériel et social, et vice versa
English translation:
..there is a reciprocal genesis which alternates between the drive-motivated gesture and the material and social environment, and vice versa
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- ^ [2]
- ^ [3]
- This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2009-07-12 of the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.
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