Alquié, Ferdinand
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| Birthname | Ferdinand Jean-Baptiste Alquié | ||||
| born on | 18 December 1906 at 17:00 (= 5:00 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Carcassonne, France, 43n13, 2e21 | ||||
| Timezone | LST m2e2015 (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
French philosopher and member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques from 1978. In the years 1931 to 1945 he was a professor in various provincial and Parisian lycees, and later at the University of Montpellier and Sorbonne where he worked until he retired in 1979.
He was an instructor of Gilles Deleuze.
He has published many books about Descartes, Kant and Spinoza, as well as a book on Nicolas Malebranche.
He was close to André Breton and wrote Philosophy of Surrealism (1955), which espoused a view of surrealism as a form of humanism that values the vibrant potential of the unconscious mind.
He died on 28 February 1985, Montpellier.
Relationships
- friend relationship with Breton, André (born 19 February 1896)
- (has as) teacher relationship with Deleuze, Gilles (born 18 January 1925)
Events
Source Notes
Birth certificate in Didier Geslain archive, 'Philosophes' pdf file, p. 2.
Categories
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Philosopher
- Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy
