The ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'' is a French
philosophy journal
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co-founded in 1893 by
Léon Brunschvicg
Léon Brunschvicg (; 10 November 1869 – 18 January 1944) was a French Idealist philosopher. He co-founded the '' Revue de métaphysique et de morale'' with Xavier Léon and Élie Halévy in 1893.
Life
He was born into a Jewish family.
Fr ...
,
Xavier Léon
Xavier Léon (21 May 1868 in Boulogne-Billancourt – 21 October 1935 in Paris) was a French-Jewish philosopher and historian of philosophy.
In 1893 Léon – together with Élie Halévy and others – helped found the French philosophical journal ...
and
Élie Halévy
Élie Halévy (; 6 September 1870 – 21 August 1937) was a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of the British utilitarians, the book of essays '' Era of Tyrannies'', and a history of Britain from 1815 to 1914 that influenced Bri ...
. The journal initially appeared six times a year, but since 1920 has been published quarterly.
[ It was the leading ]French-language
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journal for philosophical debates at the turn of the 20th century, hosting articles by Victor Delbos
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Biogrsphy
Delbos was born on 26 September 1862, in Figeac. He was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902. In 1 ...
, Bergson
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, etc., and still exists today.
Xavier Léon served as the first editor of the journal until his death in 1935, when he was succeeded by Dominique Parodi.[Paul Edwards, ed., ''The encyclopedia of philosophy'', vol. 6, 1967, p.204] On Parodi's death in 1955, the journal was headed by Jean Wahl
Jean André Wahl (; 25 May 1888 – 19 June 1974) was a French philosopher.
Early career
Wahl was educated at the École Normale Supérieure. He was a professor at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, broken by World War II. He was in the United Sta ...
.[Glossary of Terms and Concepts relevant to Durkheim]
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It published in 1906 Bertrand Russell
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's article on the Berry paradox
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Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, ...
, as well as articles by Louis Bachelier
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, the logicist
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Jean Nicod
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Nicod's main contribution to formal lo ...
, the mathematician Henri Poincaré
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, Gustave Belot
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Gustave Belot was born 7 August 1859 at Strasbourg,''Archives de psychologie'', Vol. 23, 1932, p.77 the son of a professor in the faculty of ...
, Félix Ravaisson
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, Célestin Bouglé
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Bouglé was born in S ...
, Henri Delacroix
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Born in Paris, Henri Delacroix was ...
(concerning William James
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), Louis Couturat
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Life and education
Born in Paris. In 1887 he entered École Normale S ...
, Sully Prudhomme
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, Henri Maldiney
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* H ...
, Francine Bloch
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, Frédéric Rauh
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, Jean Cavaillès
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, Julien Benda
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, Georges Poyer Georges may refer to:
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, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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, Georg Simmel
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, etc. More recently: Barbara Cassin
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, etc.
Some articles
* Reprinted in "The value of science" (1905a).
*
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* (Republished in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ''Sens et non-sens'', Paris, Éditions Nagel (1966) and in a 1966 edition of ''Sens et non-sens'' with new pagination by Éditions Gallimard, NRF, in the series 'Bibliothèque de philosophie', 1996, pp. 102–119.)
* Same text
in RTF)
See also
* Twentieth-century French philosophy
*Wahl's '' Collège philosophique'', whose lectures were sometimes published in the ''Revue''
References
External links
*
French Wikisource for articles published there
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French-language journals
Philosophy journals
Publications established in 1893
Quarterly journals