Patrick Laude

Patrick Laude is a scholar and author. His works deal with the relationship between mysticism, symbolism and literature, as well as focusing on important spiritual figures such as Simone Weil, Louis Massignon and Frithjof Schuon.

Biography

Born in France in 1958, he took an undergraduate degree in History and a graduate degree in Philosophy at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne while a Fellow at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He came to the US in the early eighties and obtained a Ph.D. in French literature in 1985 from Indiana University. He is currently Professor of French at Georgetown University, where he has been a faculty member since 1991.

Laude's scholarly work is primarily focused on the study of symbolic imagination in literature, particularly in 19th century poetry, and in the examination of concepts of the self in spiritual and mystical works, as well as in moral philosophy; particularly in the seventeenth century. [ Georgetown University [http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/french/patrick.htm] ] . He is the author of several books and numerous articles on these subjects.

Bibliography

English
*"The Way of Poetry: Essays on Poetics and Contemplative Transformation," SUNY, 2002)
*"Frithjof Schuon. Life and Teachings" (SUNY Press, 2004).
*"Music of the Sky: An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry" (World Wisdom, 2004)
*"Divine Play, Sacred Laughter, and Spiritual Understanding" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005))
*"Singing the Way: Insights into Poetry & Spiritual Transformation" (World Wisdom, 2005)
*"Pray Without Ceasing: The Way of the Invocation in World Religions" (World Wisdom, 2006)

French
*"Exotisme indochinois et poésie" (Sudestasie, 1990)
*"Rodenbach: les décors de silence" (Labor, 1990)
*"Littératures de la péninsule indochinoise (Bernard Hue, en collaboration)" (Karthala – AUF, 1999)
*"Massignon intérieur" (L'Age d'Homme, Paris-Lausanne, 2001)
*"Dossier H Frithjof Schuon" (L'Age d'Homme, Paris-Lausanne, 2001)

ee also

*Frithjof Schuon
*Simone Weil
*Louis Massignon

External links

* [http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/french/patrick.htm Georgetown University Staff Page]
* [http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/laudep/ Official Webpage]
* [http://www.worldwisdom.com/Public/Authors/Detail.asp?AuthorID=9&WhatType=1 Author Page]

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