Georges Gusdorf

Georges Gusdorf (1912-2000): philosopher and epistemologist French, born in Bordeaux in 1912 and dead on October 17th, 2000, with the 88 years age. Resulting from a Protestant family originating in the east of France, it is one of the large thinkers of this century and is the author of a monumental work (33 pounds published).

Former student then prefect of studies to the National university (ENS) of Paris, he was professor with the Université of Strasbourg. Raised Gaston Bachelard, he was Master of Althusser and Foucault at the National university.

After its studies with the Sorbonne in the years 1930, at the time of Andre Lalande and Emile Bréhier, it came to Strasbourg to occupy in 1948 the pulpit of general philosophy and logic, whereas it was repeater with the ENS, where it had succeeded Merleau-Ponty. It had then published only one thesis, the Discovery of oneself , matrix of its future work on the memory and written during its long captivity with Lübeck, during the Second world war.

Works

the Discovery of oneself , 1948;
the human experiment of the sacrifice , 1948;
Treated moral existence , 1949;
Memory and nobody , 1951;
the word , 1952;
Myth and metaphysical , 1953;
Treated of metaphysics , 1956;
Science and faith in the middle of the 20th century , 1956;
the virtue of force , 1957;
Introduction to the social sciences , 1960;
Dialog with the doctor , 1962;
human Significance of freedom , 1962;
Kierkegaard , 1963;
Why of the professors? For a pedagogy of pedagogy , 1963;
the university in question, 1964;
the social sciences are social sciences , 1967;
Pentecost without the healthy spirit: university 1968 , 1969 (published in Canada under the title: The nave of the insane ones; University 1968);
Montesquieu : Letters Persians - Presentation by Georges Gusdorf , 1972;
are the Social sciences social sciences? , 1976;
revolutions of France and America: violence and wisdom , 1988;
Life lines (2 volumes), 1991: writings of ego (vol. 1) and Autobiography (vol. 2);
the twilight of the illusions: memories inopportune , 2002.

Collection: Social sciences and the Western thought:

Volume I: of the history of sciences to the history of the thought , 1966;
Volume II: origins of the social sciences , 1967;
Volume III: the Revolution galiléenne (2 volumes), 1969;
Volume IV: principles of the thought at the century of the lights , 1971;
Volume V: God, nature, the man at the century of the lights , 1972;
Volume VI: the advent of the social sciences at the century of the lights , 1973 (Grand Prix Gobert of the French Academy);
Volume VII: Birth of the romantic conscience at the century of the lights , 1976;
Volume VIII: revolutionary conscience; The ideologists , 1978;
Volume IX: Bases of the romantic knowledge , 1982;
Volume X: Of nothing with God in the romantic knowledge , 1983;
Volume XI: the romantic Man , 1984;
Volume XII: romantic knowledge of nature , 1985;
Volume XIII: origins of the hermeneutics , 1988.

Sources

Eric Boob, Gusdorf the heading in the Release of the Thursday, March 7, 1991

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