Maurice de Gandillac

Maurice de Gandillac ( born February 14, 1906 in Kolea, Algeria, † April 20, 2006 in Neuilly -sur -Seine near Paris) was a French philosopher.

Life

Gandillac visited with Jean- Paul Sartre, Paul Nizan and Maurice Merleau -Ponty, the Classe préparatoire Lycée Louis -le- Grand in Paris. He worked from 1946 to 1977 as a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he taught, among others, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze.

Services

Gandillac wrote a wide-ranging philosophical work, the books on the Middle Ages, Dante, Cusanus and the Modern included. He provided important translations of the works of Hegel, Nietzsche, Lukács, Bloch and Benjamin into French. He was also co-editor of the complete works of Nietzsche in France. Much of his essays was published in the anthology Genèses de la modernité 1992. Previously, in 1985, a Festschrift was published in his honor under the title L'art of confins.

Writings

• Le siècle traverse. Souvenirs de neuf décennies, Albin Michel, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-226-10467-4
• Genèses de la modernity: Les douze siècles où se fit notre Europe. De " La Cité de Dieu " à " La Nouvelle Atlantide ", Editions du Cerf, Paris, 1992, ISBN 2-204-04503-9