A Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition
. 1889–1973. French philosopher and dramatist born in Paris. He is usually classed as an EXISTENTIALIST, though of a theistic kind as opposed to SARTRE, HEIDEGGER or JASPERS (he joined the Catholic church in 1929), but the aptness of this classification has been disputed. Journal métaphysique, 1927.
Etre et avoir, 1935. Présence et immortalité, 1959. (These three volumes form a philosophical diary.) The Philosophy of Existence, 1949 (republished as Philosophy of Existentialism, 1961; translated essays). The Mystery of Being (Le Mystère de l’être), 2 vols, 1950–1.
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