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Émile-Auguste Chartier ( French: [ʃaʁtje]; 3 March 1868 – 2 June 1951), commonly known as Alain ( [alɛ̃] ), was a French philosopher, journalist, essayist, pacifist, and teacher of philosophy. Early life and teaching. Alain was born in 1868 in Normandy, in the rural town of Mortagne-au-Perche, the son of a veterinary surgeon.
May 29, 2024 · Alain (born March 3, 1868, Mortagne, Fr.—died June 2, 1951, Le Vésinet, near Paris) was a French philosopher whose work profoundly influenced several generations of readers.
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The philosopher Alain in English. propos. This is an introduction to Alain’s propos, 41 of which are translated here, most of them for the first time in English. What is a propos ? The French word is both plain and ambiguous: a suggestion, a comment, a proposition, remarks, notes? Perhaps ‘proposal’ comes closest as a translation.
PHILOSOPHY Alain: For and Against JOHN WEIGHTMAN Emile-Auguste Chartier (1868-1951), the philosopher-essayist who wrote under the pen name Alain, is a unique case of a French intellectual figure celebrated in his own coun-try but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, even today, more than thirty years after his death. Yet he was one ...
Émile-Auguste Chartier, dit Alain, est un philosophe, journaliste, essayiste et professeur de philosophie français, né le 3 mars 1868 à Mortagne-au-Perche ( France) et mort le 2 juin 1951 au Vésinet.
- (à 83 ans)Le Vésinet
- 3 mars 1868Mortagne-au-Perche
Philosopher, journalist, and pacifist Émile-Auguste Chartier was commonly known as Alain.Japanese: アラン. Alain is the author of Propos sur le bonheur (...
French philosopher, essayist, and schoolmaster, one of the great intellectual forces in France during the first half of the 20th century; b. Mortagne, France, March 3, 1868; d. Le V é sinet, June 3, 1951. Of Norman ancestry, he inherited the rugged common sense and obstinancy of the Norman peasant.
