See also: Attic (homonymy)

Jean Grenier is a philosopher and French writer born with Paris in 1898 and deceased in 1971.

Professor of Philosophy to Algiers, it strongly influenced (especially by its book the Islands ) the young person Albert Camus who was his pupil and then his friend for always. Camus dedicated its first book to him back and the place like the Man revolted and prefaced the 2nd edition of the Îles in 1959.

The two thinkers nevertheless followed opposite ways. Camus, towards the revolt and finally the cries of the Fall . Jean Attic, towards a more indifferent contemplation, taoist and secretly Christian woman. Jean Grenier thought that the world is not a problem to be solved but a spectacle to be looked at.

In Sorbonne, it occupies the Chaire of Esthétique. Very with the fact of the intellectual movements of its time, he attends Jean-Paul Sartre with which he proposes literary collaborations and concentrates himself on the problem of the existence and freedom.

Works

• the Islands , 1933
• Test on the spirit of orthodoxy , 1938
• Talks on the good use of freedom , Paris, Gallimard, 1948
• the Strikes , Cairo, L.D.F., 1955
• the unhappy existence , Paris, Gallimard, 1957
• Zoran Music , the Museum of Pocket, Paris, 1970

External bonds

• maritime ways of Jean Attic
• Jean Attic and Brittany