Vladimir Jankélévitch

Vladimir Jankélévitch
Born (1903-08-31)31 August 1903
Bourges
Died 6 June 1985(1985-06-06) (aged 81)
Paris
Alma mater École Normale Supérieure
University of Lille
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Continental philosophy
Institutions University of Toulouse, University of Lille, University of Paris, Paris I
Main interests
 Ethics
Notable ideas
 The paradox of morality (le paradoxe de la morale)

Vladimir Jankélévitch (French: [ʒɑ̃kelevitʃ]; 31 August 1903 – 6 June 1985) was a French philosopher and musicologist.

Biography

Jankélévitch was the son of Russian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France. In 1922 he started studying philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris, under Professor Bergson. In 1924 he completed his DES thesis (diplôme d'études supérieures, roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) on Le Traité : la dialectique. Ennéade I 3 de Plotin under the direction of Émile Bréhier.[1] From 1927 to 1932 he taught at the Institut Français in Prague, where he wrote his doctorate on Schelling. He returned to France in 1933, where he taught at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and at many universities, including Toulouse and Lille. In 1941 he joined the French Resistance. After the war, in 1951, he was appointed to the chair of Moral Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I after 1971), where he taught until 1978.

The extreme subtlety of his thought is apparent throughout his works where the very slightest gradations are assigned great importance. Jankélévitch, who drew on Platonist, Neoplatonist and Greek Patristic sources in establishing his essentially agnostic thought, was resolute in his opposition to German philosophical influence.He was adamant in his refusal to extend forgiveness to Germany following the extermination of Jewish populations.

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Posthumous publications

Notes

  1. ↑ Alan D. Schrift, Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers, John Wiley & Sons, 2009, pp. 140–1.

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