Xavier Léon (21 May 1868 in Boulogne-Billancourt – 21 October 1935 in Paris) was a French-Jewish[1] philosopher and historian of philosophy.
In 1893 Léon – together with Élie Halévy and others – helped found the French philosophical journal Revue de métaphysique et de morale. Léon remained editor of the journal until his death in 1935,[2] when he was succeeded by Dominique Parodi.[3] In 1900 he founded the International Congress of Philosophy,[4] and in 1901 the Société Française de Philosophie.[3] He wrote extensively on Johann Gottlieb Fichte. He is buried in the Jewish section of Père-Lachaise Cemetery.[5]
Works
edit- La philosophie de Fichte, ses rapports avec la conscience contemporaine, Paris: F. Alcan, 1902
- Fichte et son temps, Paris: A Colin, 1922
- Établissement et prédication de la doctrine de la liberté : la vie de Fichte jusqu'au départ d'Jéna (1762-1799), 1922
- La lutte pour l'affranchissement national (1806 - 1813), 1924
- Fichte à Berlin (1799 - 1813) : la lutte pour l'affranchissement national (1806 - 1813), 1927
References
edit- ^ Jimena Canales, The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time, Princeton University Press (2015), p. 80
- ^ William G. Holzberger, ed., The Letters of George Santayana, Volume 3, p.170 n.1
- ^ a b Paul Edwards, ed., The encyclopedia of philosophy, vol. 6, 1967, p.204
- ^ André Lalande, 'Principal Publications on the Philosophy of the Sciences brought out in France since 1900', in Marvin Farber, ed., Philosophic thought in France and the United States, 1968, p.175
- ^ Gilles Plaut, Cimetière du Père-Lachaise: Division israélite, 1999, p.38
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