- Jean-Marie Guyau
Jean-Marie Guyau (
October 28 ,1854 -March 31 ,1888 ) was a Frenchphilosopher andpoet .Guyau was inspired by the poetry and philosophy of Hugo, Corneille, Musset,
Epictetus ,Plato , and Kant. Having received his Bachelor of Arts at only 17 years of age, he translated the "Handbook" of Epictetus and taught at theLycée Condorcet , where he wrote. Following the first attacks of his disease, he went to the South of France, where he remained until his death - he was 31. While in the South, he wrote many philosophical works and much poetry.He was also the son of
Augustine Tuillerie , who published the "Le Tour de France par deux enfants" in 1877 and Gayau's wife published, under the pseudonym of Pierre Ulric, romance briefs for youths.Bibliography
* "Essai sur la morale littéraire". 1873.
* "Première année de lecture courante". 1875.
* "Morale d'Epicure". 1878.
* "Morale anglaise contemporaine". 1879.
* "Vers d'un philosophe".
* "Problèmes de l'esthétique contemporaine". 1884.
* "Esquisse d'une morale sans obligation ni sanction". 1884.
* "Irréligion de l'avenir". 1886, engl. "The Non-religion of the future", New York 1962
* "Education et Heredite. Etude sociologique." Paris 1902.econdary literature
*Hoeges, Dirk. "Literatur und Evolution. Studien zur französischen Literaturkritik im 19. Jahrhundert. Taine - Brunetière - Hennequin - Guyau", Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1980. ISBN 3-533-02857-7
*Jordi Riba, La morale anomique de Jean-Marie Guyau, Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan, 1999
*Marco Orru, The Ethics of Anomie: Jean Marie Guyau and Emile Durkheim, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Dec., 1983), pp. 499-518
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