Esprit (magazine)

Participants set up by Emmanuel Mounier 1932 magazine Esprit, the thinking of personalism deployed by it gradually embraces all areas of intellectual, social, economic and political life. Here is also the argument and debate with other currents of the present, especially with communism and capitalism, out.

The magazine makes a significant contribution to the self-clarification of the philosophy of personalism, by dealing with current problems of human coexistence, such as the relationship between business and ethics of sociality and religiosity of Communism and Christianity.

In the years 1941-1944 the Vichy regime had banned the magazine. After the end of the Second World War, Esprit, headed by Mounier the work continues, and so developed a program for the " Personalistic revolution." The magazine also exists at present and is to be regarded as a counterpart to the French New Left Marxism.

Source

• W. Böhm and G. Flores D' Arcais: The pedagogy of French-speaking countries in the 20th century. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1980 ISBN 3-12-920571-3