Émile Bréhier was a French philosopher. His interest was in classical philosophy, and the history of philosophy. He wrote a Histoire de la Philosophie, translated into English in seven volumes.

Bréhier was Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize...

's successor at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...

, in 1945. The historian Louis Bréhier

Louis Bréhier

Louis René Bréhier was a French historian who specialized in Byzantine studies. He was a native of Brest, and was brother to philosopher Emile Bréhier ....

 was his brother.

Views

He was an early follower of Bergson; in the 1930s there was an influential view that Bergsonism and Neoplatonism were linked.

He has been called "the sole figure in the French history who adopts an Hegelian

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...

 interpretation of Neoplatonism

Neoplatonism

Neoplatonism , is the modern term for a school of religious and mystical philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century AD, based on the teachings of Plato and earlier Platonists, with its earliest contributor believed to be Plotinus, and his teacher Ammonius Saccas...

", but also a Neo-Kantian opponent of Hegel.

Works

• Schelling (1912)
• Histoire de la philosophie allemande (1921)
• La Philosophie de Plotin
• Plotin: Ennéades (with French translation), Collection Budé
  Collection Budé
  The Collection Budé, or the Collection des Universités de France, is a series of books comprising the Greek and Latin classics up to the middle of the 6th century...
  
  , 1924–1938
• Histoire de la philosophie - I Antiquité et moyen âge (three volumes), II La philosophie moderne (four volumes)
• La philosophie du moyen âge (1949)
• Le monde byzantin - la civilisation byzantine (1950)
• Chrysippe et l'ancien stoïcisme (Paris, 1951)
• Études de philosophie antique (1955)

External links

• IDIH page Biography
• Oeuvres sur les classiques des sciences sociales :fr:Les classiques des sciences sociales