- Émile Bréhier
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 theSorbonne , in 1944. The historianLouis Bréhier was his brother.Views
He was an early follower of Bergson; in the 1930s there was an influential view that Bergsonism and Neoplatonism were linked [Paul Andrew Passavant, Jodi Dean, "Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri" (2004), p. 218.] .
He has been called "the sole figure in the French history who adopts an
Hegelian interpretation ofNeoplatonism " [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).] , but also aNeo-Kantian opponent of Hegel [Bruce Baugh, "French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism" (2003), note p. 183.] .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 Orien"t (1948) with P. Masson-Oursel
*"Chrysippe et l'ancien stoicisme" (Paris, 1951)
*"Études de philosophie antique" (1955)References
*Alan D. Schrift (2006), "Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes And Thinkers", p. 107
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External links
* [http://www.idih.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Br%C3%A9hier IDIH page]
*fr icon [http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/brehier_emile/brehier_emile_photo/brehier_emile_photo.html Biography]
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