The Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière (1 January 1866 – 15 March 1955) was a French writer, journalist and critic.

Biography

Seillière was born in

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, the son of Aimé Seillière and Marie de Laborde. He studied at the

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. He was elected a member of the

Académie des sciences morales et politiques An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, f ...

in 1914. Aged 80, Seillière was (with Jean Tharaud,

René Grousset Biography Grousset was born in Aubais, Gard in 1885. Having graduated from the University of Montpellier with a degree in history, he began his distinguished career soon afterward. He served in the French army during World War I. In 1925, ...

Octave Aubry Octave Aubry (1 September 1881, Paris – 27 March 1946) was a French novelist and historian. Biography Aubry, Ernest Seillière, Jean Tharaud, René Grousset and Robert d'Harcourt were the five members of the Académie française elected on ...

and

Robert d'Harcourt Robert d'Harcourt (23 November 1881 – 18 June 1965) was a French Catholic intellectual, scholar of German culture and anti-Nazi polemicist. Early years A member of the aristocratic Norman House of Harcourt, d'Harcourt was born at Lumigny-Ne ...

) one of the five members of the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. He was received on 23 May 1946 by

Édouard Le Roy Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (; 18 June 1870 in Paris – 10 November 1954 in Paris) was a French philosopher and mathematician. Life Le Roy entered the '' École Normale Supérieure'' in 1892, and received the ''agrégation'' in mathe ...

, succeeding

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. He married Germaine Demachy, daughter of the president of the

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, and was the grandfather of

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Works

* ''Étude sur Ferdinand Lassalle, fondateur du Parti Socialiste Allemand'' (1897) * ''Littérature et Morale dans le Parti Socialiste Allemand'' (1898) * ''La Philosophie de l'impérialisme'', 4 volumes: I. ''Le Comte de Gobineau et l'

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e historique'' (1903), II. ''Apollon ou Dionysos? Étude sur

Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ca ...

'' (1905), III. ''L'Impérialisme démocratique'' (1907), IV. ''Le Mal romantique - Essai sur l'impérialisme irrationnel'' (1908) * ''Une Tragédie d'Amour au Temps du Romantisme'' (1909) * ''Les Mystiques du Néoromantisme - Karl Marx, Tolstoï, les Pangermanistes'' (1910) * ''Barbey d'Aurevilly'' (1910) * ''Introduction à la Philosophie de l'Impérialisme'' (1911) * ''Schopenhauer'' (1912) * ''Mysticisme et Domination'' (1913) * ''Le Romantisme des Réalistes - Gustave Flaubert'' (1914) * ''L'Avenir de la Philosophie Bergsonienne'' (1917) * ''Un artisan d'énergie française, Pierre de Coubertin'' (1917) * ''

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

'' (1923) * ''Psychoanalyse

freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...

ienne ou psychologie impérialiste'' (1928) * '' Romantisme et démocratie romantique'' (1930) * ''

Émile Faguet Auguste Émile Faguet (; 17 December 18477 June 1916) was a French author and literary critic. Biography Faguet was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée, and educated at the École normale supérieure in Paris. After teaching for some time in La ...

historien des idées'' (1938) * ''Le Naturisme de

Montaigne Michel Eyquem, Sieur de Montaigne ( ; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), also known as the Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a lite ...

et autres essais'' (1938) * ''Un précurseur du national-socialisme. L'actualité de Carlyle'' (1939)

Bibliography

* Seillière, Jean : Ernest Seillière - 1866 1966 - Centenaire De La Naissance. 1966. * Cazanove, Laetitia de : Ernest Seillière (1866-1955), théoricien de l'impérialisme et père du fascisme ?, Université de Paris X Nanterre, 2001 (Dir. Didier Musiedlak), 218 p.

External links

Académie française
in the ''Dictionnaire de la réception de

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revol ...

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