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Léon Brunschvicg (French: [leɔ̃ bʁœ̃svik]; 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.
Léon Brunschvicg (born Nov. 10, 1869, Paris—died Feb. 2, 1944, Aix-les-Bains, Fr.) was a French Idealist philosopher who regarded mathematical judgment as the highest form of human thought.
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Léon Brunschvicg, né dans le 2e arrondissement de Paris le 10 novembre 1869 et mort à Aix-les-Bains le 18 janvier 1944, est un philosophe des sciences et historien de la philosophie français idéaliste de tendance kantienne et spinozienne. Époux de la féministe et sous-secrétaire d'État à l'Éducation Cécile Brunschvicg, il est le fondateur en 189...
- 18 janvier 1944 (à 74 ans)Aix-les-Bains
- 10 novembre 18692e arrondissement de Paris
- Lycée CondorcetÉcole normale supérieure
- française
A commanding presence in French philosophy for the first half of the twentieth century, Brunschvicg espoused an idealist and neo-Hegelian philosophy, which sought to interpret the progress of self-consciousness in terms of the emergence of the natural sciences.
BRUNSCHVICG, LÉON(1869–1944) Léon Brunschvicg, the French idealist philosopher, was born in Paris and educated at the Lycée Condorcet, where he won awards in science as well as in classics and philosophy.
May 17, 2018 · philosophy. Brunschvicg, of Alsatian origin, achieved a brilliant record at the Lycée Condorcet. There his fellow students included Marcel Proust; Célestin Bouglé, a future sociologist; Xavier Léon; and Élie Halévy, in whose home, around 1885, he met Victor Hugo, Leconte de Lisle, and Bizet.
Léon Brunschvicg was a Jewish philosopher persecuted for his heritage. In the post-war period, his emphasis on idealism was sidelined as insufficiently materialist by the mainstream Marxist philosophers in France.
