Jacques Taminiaux (; 29 May 1928 – 7 May 2019) was a Belgian philosopher and professor at

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in Chestnut Hill,

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Biography

Born in

Seneffe Seneffe (; wa, Sinefe) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 Seneffe had a total population of 10,743. The total area is 62.77 km² which gives a population density of 171 inhabitants ...

, Taminiaux studied law and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests are on

phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (philosophy), a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a ...

aesthetics Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...

political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

and contemporary

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. Together with

Herman Van Breda Herman Leo Van Breda (born Leo Marie Karel; 28 February 1911, in Lier, Belgium – 3 March 1974, in Leuven) was a Franciscan, philosopher and founder of the Husserl Archives at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Le ...

, he worked on the Husserl-Archives Leuven (the research center responsible for the publication of the philosophical work of

Edmund Husserl , thesis1_title = Beiträge zur Variationsrechnung (Contributions to the Calculus of Variations) , thesis1_url = https://fedora.phaidra.univie.ac.at/fedora/get/o:58535/bdef:Book/view , thesis1_year = 1883 , thesis2_title ...

) at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven. In 1977, he was awarded the

Francqui Prize The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scholarly and scientific prize named after Émile Francqui. Normally annually since 1933, the Francqui Foundation awards it in recognition of the achievements of a scholar or scientist, who at the start ...

on Human Sciences for his work on the history of philosophy. Taminiaux died on 7 May 2019, at the age of 90.

Books

*''La Nostalgie de la Grèce à l’aube de l‘idéalisme allemand: Kant et les Grecs dans l’itinéraire de Schiller, de Hölderlin et de Hegel''. La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1967, 274 p. *''Le regard et l’excédent''. La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff (Phaenomenologica, 75), 1977, 182 p. *''Recoupements''. Bruxelles: Ousia, 1982, 212 p. *''Naissance de la philosophie hégélienne de l’Etat. Commentaire et traduction de la Realphilosophie d’Iéna (1805–1806)''. Paris: Payot (Critique de la politique), 1984. *''Dialectic and Difference. Finitude in Modern Thought''. Translated by James Decker and Robert Crease, Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1985, 177 p. (Paperback edition, 1990). *''Lectures de l’ontologie fondamentale. Essais sur Heidegger''. Grenoble: Millon (Krisis), 1989, 300 p. *''Heidegger and the Project of Fundamental Ontology''. Translated and edited in English by Michael Gendre, Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy), 1991, 233 p. *''La fille de Thrace et le penseur professionnel. Arendt et Heidegger''. Paris: Payot (Critique de la politique), 1992, 247 p. *''The Thracian Maid and the Professional Thinker: Arendt and Heidegger,''translated by Michael Gendre, New York: SUNY Press, 1997. *''Poetics, Speculation, and Judgment. The Shadow of the Work of Art from Kant to Phenomenology''. Translated and edited by Michael Gendre, Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy), 1993, 191 p. *''Le Théâtre des philosophes''. Grenoble: Millon, 1995, 303 p. *''Lectures de l’ontologie fondamentale''. Grenoble: Millon, 1995 (2d, revised ed.) *''Het Thracische dienstmeisje en de professionele denker: Hannah Arendt en Martin Heidegger'', Vertaling: Jos Augustus en Ineke van der Burg, Nijmegen, SUN, 2000 *''Sillages phénoménologiques: auditeurs et lecteurs de Heidegger''. Brussels: Editions Ousia, 2002, 296 p. *''The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction''. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2004, 69 p.

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Curriculum Vitae
1928 births 2019 deaths KU Leuven faculty 20th-century Belgian philosophers Boston College faculty Members of Academia Europaea Continental philosophers Heidegger scholars Husserl scholars {{Belgium-philosopher-stub