Étienne Souriau
![]() | This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (August 2009) |
Étienne Souriau | |
---|---|
Born | |
Died | 19 November 1979 (aged 87) |
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy |
Étienne Souriau (French: [suʁjo]; April 26, 1892 – November 19, 1979) was a French philosopher, best known for his work in aesthetics.
Biography
[edit]Son of Paul Souriau, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure and received his agrégation of philosophy in 1925. After teaching at the universities of Aix-en-Provence and Lyon he eventually became a professor at the Sorbonne, where he held a chair in aesthetics. He was the editor of the Revue d'esthétique and was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1958. Recently, the works of Bruno Latour have reawoken interests on Souriau's oeuvre, specially his works on ontology and metaphysics regarding his theories of different modes of existence.
Works
[edit]- L'Abstraction sentimentale, 1925
- L'Avenir de l'esthétique : essai sur l'objet d'une science naissante, F. Alcan, Coll. « Biblio. de Philosophie Contemporaine », 1929
- L'Instauration philosophique, 1939
- Les Différents modes d'existence, 1943 (new edition 2009)
- La Correspondance des arts, 1947
- L'Ombre de dieu, 1955
- Poésie française et la Peinture, 1966
- Clefs pour l'esthétique, 1970
- La Couronne d'herbes, 1975
- La Correspondance des arts, science de l'homme: éléments d'esthétique comparée, 1969
- L'Avenir de la philosophie, Gallimard, coll. « Idées », 1982
- Les Deux Cent Mille Situations dramatiques, Flammarion, Paris, 1950
- L'Univers filmique, 1953
Collaborations
- Esthétique industrielle, avec Charles Lalo et d'autres, articles parus dans la Revue d'esthétique, juillet-décembre 1951
- Vocabulaire d'esthétique, avec Anne Souriau, PUF, coll. « Quadrige », 2004
References
[edit]- Luce de Vitry-Maubrey, La pensée cosmologique d'Étienne Souriau, Paris, Klincksieck, 1974.