- Georges Palante
Georges Palante (
November 20 1862 -August 5 1925 ) is a French philosopher and sociologist.He advocated aristocratic individualist ideas, close to
nietzsche an andschopenauer ian thesis [ [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/selene.star/page_influences.htm Palante's influences] .] . He opposed toÉmile Durkheim 'sholism , promotingmethodological individualism instead.Suffering from
acromegaly and weary of his philosophy teacher job, he shot himself.Most of his readers are anarchists, though he never claim being anarchist. His work was translated in Italian.
Posterity
Louis Guilloux wrote "Souvenirs sur Georges Palante" ("Memories on Georges Palante") and took his inspiration from Palante to model his character Cripure (short for "Critique de la raison pure", in English: "Critique of pure reason") in his novel "Le Sang Noir" ("Dark Blood").Michel Onfray 's thesis and first published book, "Physiologie de Georges Palante" ("Georges Palante's Physiology"), is about this philosopher, and contributes to enlighten him. The 2002 and 2005 reissues of this work were subtitled "portrait d’un nietzschéen de gauche" ("Portrait of a left-wing nietzschean").Trivia
* He's quoted in one of Camus' "The Rebel" footnote, as
Jean Grenier who was Camus philosophy teacher met Palante and devoted a full chapter to him in his book "Les Grèves" ("The Strikes").
* He used to correct his students philosophy papers in brothels.Writings
* "Précis de Sociologie", Paris, Alcan, 1901.
* "Combat pour l’individu", Paris, Alcan, 1904a.
* " [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/selene.star/page_sensibilite_individualiste.htm La Sensibilité individualiste] ", Paris, Alcan, 1909.
* "Les Antinomies entre l’individu et la société", Paris, Alcan, 1912.
* " [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/selene.star/page_bovarysme.htm La Philosophie du bovarysme, Jules de Gaultier] ", Paris, Mercure de France, 1912.
* « " [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/selene.star/page_these_refusee.htm Autour d’une thèse refusée en Sorbonne] " », "Revue du Mercure de France", 1912.
* " [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/selene.star/PESSIMISME_ET_INDIVIDUALIS.htm Pessimisme et individualisme] ", Paris, Alcan, 1914.
* "Du nouveau en politique ! Des problèmes nouveaux ! Des partis nouveaux ! Des hommes nouveaux !", Duperret, 1919.References
External links
* [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/selene.star/ Website dedicated to Georges Palante, with online ressources]
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