Louis Lavelle
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Louis Lavelle was a French
philosopher. His magnum opus
is La Dialectique de l'éternel présent, a metaphysical
work in four volumes: De l'Être (1928), De l'Acte (1937), Du Temps et de l'Eternité (1945), and De l'Âme Humaine (1951).
Lavelle's other writings include La dialectique du monde sensible: Lu perception visuelle de la profondeur (1921), La conscience de soi (1933), La présence totale (1934), L'Erreur de Narcisse (1939), Le Mal et la Souffrance (1940), La Parole et l'Écriture (1947), and Les puissances du Moi (1948).
From the Inside Dust Jacket cover of his book Evil and Suffering
“About the author:
Louis Lavelle was born in France in 1883 and died there in 1951, one of the most prominent Christian Philosophers of our time. He was Professor at the College de France; at the Sorbonne; and lectured at German, Italian, Swiss, Belgian and Dutch universities. In 1947 he was recognized for his many philosophical and religious writings, and named to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Evil and Suffering is the first of his philosophical works to be published in this country.” - From back inside Dust Jacket of the book Evil and Suffering, The Macmillan Company , New York, 1963. Originally published in 1940 as Le mal et la suffrance.
A search of WorldCat turns up a number of books by and about Louis Lavelle. However, not many of these works are in English. But the following references are in English.
James Collins published the article "Louis Lavelle on Human Participation" in The Philosophical Review vol 56, no. 2 (1947): 156-83.
Walter J. Ong works with a sound/sight contrast throughout Ramus, Method, and the Deacay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (1958, 3rd ed. 2004), which he credits largely to Lavelle: "For a discerning and profound treatment of the visual-aural opposition on which the present discussion turns, the reader is referred to the works of Louis Lavelle, especially La parole et l'ecriture (Paris, 1942), and Jean Nogue, Esquisse d'un systeme des qualites sensibles (Paris, 1943)" (p. 338n.54).
Colin Smith devotes a chapter to discussing Lavelle's work in Contemporary French Philosophy: A Study in Norms and Values (1964, pp. 47-74).
Marvin Farber includes an essay by Lavelle in the collection Philosophic Thought in France and the United States: Essays Representing Major Trends in Contemporary French and American Philosophy (1968, pp. 121-35).
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philosopher. His magnum opus
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is La Dialectique de l'éternel présent, a metaphysical
Metaphysics
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work in four volumes: De l'Être (1928), De l'Acte (1937), Du Temps et de l'Eternité (1945), and De l'Âme Humaine (1951).
Lavelle's other writings include La dialectique du monde sensible: Lu perception visuelle de la profondeur (1921), La conscience de soi (1933), La présence totale (1934), L'Erreur de Narcisse (1939), Le Mal et la Souffrance (1940), La Parole et l'Écriture (1947), and Les puissances du Moi (1948).
From the Inside Dust Jacket cover of his book Evil and Suffering
“About the author:
Louis Lavelle was born in France in 1883 and died there in 1951, one of the most prominent Christian Philosophers of our time. He was Professor at the College de France; at the Sorbonne; and lectured at German, Italian, Swiss, Belgian and Dutch universities. In 1947 he was recognized for his many philosophical and religious writings, and named to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Evil and Suffering is the first of his philosophical works to be published in this country.” - From back inside Dust Jacket of the book Evil and Suffering, The Macmillan Company , New York, 1963. Originally published in 1940 as Le mal et la suffrance.
A search of WorldCat turns up a number of books by and about Louis Lavelle. However, not many of these works are in English. But the following references are in English.
James Collins published the article "Louis Lavelle on Human Participation" in The Philosophical Review vol 56, no. 2 (1947): 156-83.
Walter J. Ong works with a sound/sight contrast throughout Ramus, Method, and the Deacay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (1958, 3rd ed. 2004), which he credits largely to Lavelle: "For a discerning and profound treatment of the visual-aural opposition on which the present discussion turns, the reader is referred to the works of Louis Lavelle, especially La parole et l'ecriture (Paris, 1942), and Jean Nogue, Esquisse d'un systeme des qualites sensibles (Paris, 1943)" (p. 338n.54).
Colin Smith devotes a chapter to discussing Lavelle's work in Contemporary French Philosophy: A Study in Norms and Values (1964, pp. 47-74).
Marvin Farber includes an essay by Lavelle in the collection Philosophic Thought in France and the United States: Essays Representing Major Trends in Contemporary French and American Philosophy (1968, pp. 121-35).