Pierre-Simon Ballanche

Pierre-Simon Ballanche , born with Lyon the August 7th 1776, and died in Paris the June 12th 1847, is a writer and philosopher French.

Life and work

He is the son of one of the largest Lyons printers of the time.

Its writings are attached to only one and even thought, the history of the destinies of mankind and the social restoration. Dedicated, according to him, at alternative periods of destruction and regeneration, the companies achieve a kind of cyclic epopee, which he undertook to tell. He hoped to reconcile the religious dogma of the fall and the rehabilitation of the man with the philosophical dogma of human perfectibility.

Ballanche was elected member of the French Academy in 1842.

Friend of Chateaubriant and Mrs. Récamier, Ballanche is buried with the Montmartre cemetery in the vault of the latter.

Works

Of the feeling considered in his relationship with the literature and Arts (1801)
Ines of Castro (1811) new
the great work which he contemplated was to be entitled the social Palingénésie .
Antigone , Orphée , the Vision of Hébal , the City of the Atonements , the Man without name , the Old man and the Young man , kinds of poems philosophical that it composed successively, are episodes.
Tests of social palingenesis (1820). They appeared in 1827, they are the introduction of the preceding work.
social Institutions (1828).
Its Œuvres was joined together by itself in 4 volumes in 1830 and 6 volumes in 1832.

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