Jean Wahl

Jean Wahl ( born May 25, 1888 in Marseille, † June 19, 1974 in Paris) was a French philosopher. He taught from 1936-1967 as a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, with a brief interruption, however, as he was taken as a Jew in a concentration camp during World War II, until he finally fled to the United States.

Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, he and Gustave Cohen in New York exile University, the École Libre des Hautes Études.

Earlier in his career he was a follower of Henri Bergson and the American philosopher William James and George Santayana. Choice was also interested very much for Kierkegaard and Hegel, he has been part of the founders of French Hegelianism in the 1930s.

He influenced a number of key philosophers, among them Emmanuel Levinas and Jean -Paul Sartre.

Works

  • Le malheur de la conscience dans la philosophie de Hegel. 1929
  • Études kierkegaardiennes. 1938
  • Deucalion. Cahiers de philosophie, altogether 4 volumes, 1946-1952. # 1 & 2 in the publishing Éd. Revue de la Fontaine 1946, 1947; Issue 3 & 4 in the Vlg à la Baconniere, Neuchatel, 1950, 1952
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