Leopold Flam (16 March 1912 – 29 September 1995) was a

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philosopher. Together with Alphonse De Waelhens,

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and Rudolf Boehm, he was one of leading philosophers of Belgium from the 1960s until the 1980s. Born in

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, Flam studied social sciences, political history, philosophy at the

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and obtained a PhD in history. During

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he was imprisoned in the Dossin Barracks at Mechelen and in the

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. After the war he became a professor at the

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. He founded the ''Vlaamse vereniging voor Wijsbegeerte'' (1959) (E: Flemish League for Philosophy), later of Aurora. He became director of the magazine ''Geschiedenis in het onderwijs'' (E: History in education). Flam died at his home in

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, near Brussels, on 29 September 1995.

Bibliography

* Gestalten van de Westerse subjectiviteit, Wereldbibliotheek, 1965
Naar de Dageraad
Kroniek en getuigenis van de oorlogsjaren 1943–45, VUBpress, 1996

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