Bruno Pinchard , French philosopher (born in Le Havre, 1955). Incorporated Philosophy and Doctor d' État, he is a former student of the National university and Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy). He taught in the secondary, was researcher with CNRS in the team of André Robinet, then professor with the Université of Turns, the Université of Paris X and with the Center of Higher learning of the Rebirth of 1991 to 2003. Currently professor at the University Lyon 3. Its work was first of all an attempt at dialog renewed with the Italian thought, bearing on the relationship between Scolastique and Humanisme and on the Latin mythologies studied from the point of view of Dante and Vico. This research is ensuites carried towards the Raison like a prolongation of architectonic of traditional metaphysics, and in particular of the occasionalism of Malebranche. It was thus the topic of its thesis of State (duplicated Reason, Paris, Aubier, 1996) to release the categories of one at the same time metaphysical and critical rationality of imaginary human.

Works

• Metaphysical and semantic, around Cajétan, Paris, Vrin, 1987

• Savonarole, the Function of poetry, Lausanne, the Old one of man, 1989
• analogical Rationalism and theological humanism (to dir.), Napoli, Vivarium, 1993
• Vico, Of the antique wisdom of Italy, Paris, GF, 1993
• To rough-hew It of Beatrice, Paris, Sapwood, 1996
• lightness to be it (to dir.), Paris, Vrin, 1998
• For Dante (to dir.), Paris, Champion, 2001
• mythological Meditations (Paris, Hinderers to think in round, 2002)