Georges Palante

Georges Toussaint Léon Palante ( born November 20, 1862 in Saint- Laurent- Blangy ( Pas -de- Calais, France); † August 5, 1925 in Hillion, Cotes -d'Armor ) was a French philosopher, writer and anarchist.

Life

Palante visited various schools and universities, including in Arras (1879 ) and in Paris in 1881, the Lycée Louis- le -Grand. He got a scholarship in philosophy at the University of Douai ( 1883-1885 ). As a philosophy teacher, he had a job in 1885 in Aurillac and 1886-1888 at the High School of Châteauroux.

Palante was early influenced mainly by Friedrich Nietzsche and was one of the first international " Linksnietzscheaner ". Among the later influences are especially Max Stirner and Sigmund Freud mentioned. Even to him the book La philosophie du bovarysme by Jules de Gaultier have greatly impressed. From the German educator and philosopher Theobald Ziegler translated Palante 1893 work La Question sociale est une question morale. In 1900 he began his first works in journals to publish. Among other things he wrote until 1916 for the Revue Philosophique de France et de l' étranger, and from 1911 to 1923, he represented Gaultier at the Revue du Mercure de France. Beginning in 1901, several essays and studies, often grappled with problems of individualism appeared to Combat pour l' individual (1904 ), Sensibilité individualiste (1908), pessimisme et individualism (1914 ) and others.

1908 was a candidate in the municipal elections Palante in Saint Brieuc, but was not elected. Another candidate in 1919, was also unsuccessful. Palante was twice married and has one daughter. He died in 1925 by suicide.

A student Palantes, the successful writer Louis Guilloux, designed the main character " Cripure " of the translated into several languages ​​biographical novel, Black Blood by his teacher.

Thinking

Palantes belief was marked by a " radical individualism ". He saw the established society as a " straitjacket " for the individual within the state. The democracy and theocracy, he refused as corporate and government. Each maintained by violence and abuse of power form of cohabitation was him suspect. Through his doubts that an "ideal ( free ) society" could ever occur, or that the individual is the bearer of a could be such, Palante was also seen in the vicinity of nihilism.

Palantes ideas influenced authors such as Louis Guilloux, Jean Grenier and Michel Onfray. Onfray, the now world-famous philosopher of hedonistic materialism, began his successful career as an out - and against academic thinkers in 1989 with a monograph on the completely forgotten " Nietzschéen de gauche " Palante.

Writings (selection )

  • L'esprit administratif. In: Revue Socialiste (1900)
  • Le dilettantisme social et la philosophie du " Surhomme ". In: Revue Philosophique (1900)
  • Précis de sociologie, Alcan (1901 )
  • Les dogmatismes sociaux et la libération de l' individual. In: Revue Philosophique (1901 )
  • La mentalité you révolté. In: Mercure de France ( 1902)
  • Combat pour l' individual, Paris, Alcan (1904 )
  • Anarchisme et individualisme. In: Revue Philosophique (1907 )
  • La Sensibilité individualiste. Paris, Alcan (1909 )
  • Jules de Gaultier. In: Revue des Idées (1910 )
  • Les Antinomies entre l' et la société individual, Paris, Alcan (1912 )
  • Pessimisme et individualisme, Alcan (1914 )
  • The most important works newly edited:
  • Philosophiques oeuvre, Paris: Coda 2004, 891 pp. ISBN 2-84967-000-6 ( Préface de Michel Onfray )
  • Writings by and about Palante in English translation
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