Spirit (re-examined)

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Esprit is a founded French intellectual review in 1932 by Emmanuel Mounier and whose orientations personalists were defined, in the years 1930 - 1934, in relation to the parallel orientations of the group New Ordre, within the nebula of the Non-conformistes of the Thirties.

After 1934, Esprit will look further into the social consequences and philosophical Personnalisme, of which it will become the most known expression, while creates for itself around the review a domestic network and international of groups intended to diffuse its ideas. After the armistice of 1940, Esprit reappears, and, after having expressed interest for some of the initial orientations of the national Revolution of the Régime of Vichy, the review expresses increasingly critical opinions which will lead to its prohibition in August 1941.

With the Release, Mounier starts again the review, which takes an active part in the debates and controversies of the Après-guerre, by expressing a certain orientation " philocommuniste" , at least until in 1949. After the death of Mounier in 1950, the direction of the review will be ensured by the literary critic Albert Béguin then by Jean-Marie Domenach.

Gradually, while taking part in various attempts to give birth to a " news gauche" , the identity personalist of the review will attenuate while its role of intellectual crossroads continues. The philosopher Paul Ricœur wrote there regularly.

Esprit is directed since 1989 by Olivier Mongin.

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