Paul Petit (2 May 1893 – 24 August 1944) was a French writer, sociologist, diplomat and

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worker. Arrested on 7 February 1942, Paul Petit was deported to the prison Saarbrucken 9 July 1942. Sentenced to death on 16 October 1943, by 2 e Senate Volksgerichtshof, along with his co-accused Martin Marietta and Raymond Burgard, he was beheaded at the Cologne prison (Germany) on 24 August 1944.

Translations of Kierkegaard

Petit produced French translations of the work of two works of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard: the ''

Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments ''Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments'' ( da, Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift til de philosophiske Smuler) is a major work by Søren Kierkegaard. The work is an attack against Hegelianism, the philosophy of He ...

'' (french: Post-scriptum aux Miettes philosophiques), published in 1941; and ''

Philosophical Fragments ''Philosophical Fragments'' ( Danish title: ) is a Christian philosophical work written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1844. It was the second of three works written under the pseudonym ''Johannes Climacus''; the other two were ''De ...

'' (french: Les mietes philosophiques), published posthumously in 1947.

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1893 births 1944 deaths French sociologists French Resistance members French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French male writers {{France-sociologist-stub