Maurice Patronnier of Gandillac , more known under the name of Maurice de Gandillac (born the February 14th 1906 with Koléa (Algérie) - died Thursday April 20th 2006 with Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a Philosophe and a historian of the French philosophy, whose influence through the teaching which it exempted during several decades with the Sorbonne was felt on several generations of philosophers.

Young catholic, sensitive to the ideas maurrassiennes since it militated some time with the French Action, he was the school-fellow of Sartre in literary preparatory classes with the Louis-the-Large Lycée and the National university of the street of Ulm. Raise shining, it had remarkable professors, among whom one can quote Georges Cantecor, which made him discover Nietzsche to thwart its incipient Thomisme and Etienne Gilson, which made known to him Nicolas de Cues (1421 - 1464), this Philosophe of the Renaissance, to which it was going to devote his thesis in 1941.

Professor of Philosophy to the Sorbonne, philosopher with the large open-minded, it directed in particular the first work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Louis Althusser and Gilles Deleuze, whereas they were student S.

Maurice de Gandillac was also the first Traducteur in French of Walter Benjamin.

In June 2005, it published, with Jean Ricardou, founder of the Textique and accustomed meetings of Cerisy, to which it still assisted in July 2005, a work of Poésie entitled side Bestiaire .

Summary bibliography

• Geneses of modernity. The twelve centuries when our Europe - “City of God” to the “Atlantis News was made” , Éditions of the Stag, 1992. (ISBN 2204045039)

• the century…. Nine decades memories , Albin Michel, Paris, 1998. (ISBN 2-226-10467-4)

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Photographs

• Maurice de Gandillac in Cerisy-the-Room in July 2005