Maurice de Gandillac (14 February 1906 – 18 April 2006) was a French philosopher. He was born in
Koléa
Koléa ( ar, القليعة) is a city in Tipaza Province, northern Algeria, located approximately southwest of Algiers. Its population in 2010 was 46,685.
History
Kolea was founded in 1550 by Hayreddin Barbarossa. In 1838, Christophe Léon Loui ...
,
French Algeria and died in
Neuilly-sur-Seine,
France
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.
He wrote his thesis under
Étienne Gilson
Étienne Henri Gilson (; 13 June 1884 – 19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the tradition ...
on the Renaissance philosopher
Nicholas of Cusa
Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus (), was a German Catholic cardinal, philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer. One of the first German proponents of Re ...
.
In 1946 he was appointed professor in the history of medieval and Renaissance philosophy at the Sorbonne.
He supervised the doctoral dissertations of numerous students, including
Louis Althusser,
Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard (; ; ; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and ...
,
Gilles Deleuze,
Michel Foucault, and
Jacques Derrida.
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1906 births
2006 deaths
École Normale Supérieure alumni
French centenarians
Academic staff of the University of Paris
French historians of philosophy
People affiliated with Action Française
Translators of Friedrich Nietzsche
Men centenarians
Scholars of medieval philosophy
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