The ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'' is a French
philosophy journal co-founded in 1893 by
Léon Brunschvicg
Léon Brunschvicg (; 10 November 1869 – 18 January 1944) was a French Idealist philosopher. He co-founded the ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'' with Xavier Leon and Élie Halévy in 1893.
Life
He was born into a Jewish family.
From ...
,
Xavier Léon and
Élie Halévy
Élie Halévy (6 September 1870 – 21 August 1937) was a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of the British utilitarians, the book of essays '' Era of Tyrannies'', and a history of Britain from 1815 to 1914 that influenced Britis ...
. The journal initially appeared six times a year, but since 1920 has been published quarterly.
[ It was the leading French-language journal for philosophical debates at the turn of the 20th century, hosting articles by ]Victor Delbos Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos (26 September 1862, Figeac – 16 June 1916, Paris) was a Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy.
Delbos was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902. In 1911 he became a member of the Académie des ...
, Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson , etc., and still exists today.
Xavier Léon served as the first editor of the journal until his death in 1935, when he was succeeded by Dominique Parodi
Dominique Parodi (May 2, 1870 – November 12, 1955) was a French philosopher and educational administrator.
Dominique Parodi was born in Genoa. He was the son of Margarita (née Vitale) and Dominique-Alexandre Parodi; his father was a poet and d ...
.[Paul Edwards, ed., ''The encyclopedia of philosophy'', vol. 6, 1967, p.204] On Parodi's death in 1955, the journal was headed by Jean Wahl
Jean André Wahl (; 25 May 188819 June 1974) was a French philosopher.
Early career
Wahl was educated at the École Normale Supérieure. He was a professor at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, broken by World War II. He was in the U.S. from 1942 ...
.[Glossary of Terms and Concepts relevant to Durkheim]
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It published in 1906 Bertrand Russell
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's article on the Berry paradox, as well as articles by Louis Bachelier
Louis Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Bachelier (; 11 March 1870 – 28 April 1946) was a French mathematician at the turn of the 20th century. He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now called Brownian motion, as part ...
, the logicist Jean Nicod, the mathematician Henri Poincaré, Gustave Belot
Gustave Belot (7 August 1859 – 21 December 1929) was a French philosopher and educational administrator.
Gustave Belot was born 7 August 1859 at Strasbourg,''Archives de psychologie'', Vol. 23, 1932, p.77 the son of a professor in the faculty of ...
, Félix Ravaisson, Célestin Bouglé
Célestin Charles Alfred Bouglé (1 June 1870 – 25 January 1940) was a French philosopher known for his role as one of Émile Durkheim's collaborators and a member of the '' L'Année Sociologique''.
Life
Bouglé was born in Saint-Brieuc, C ...
, Henri Delacroix (concerning William James
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.
James is considered to be a leading thinker of the lat ...
), Louis Couturat
Louis Couturat (; 17 January 1868 – 3 August 1914) was a French logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. Couturat was a pioneer of the constructed language Ido.
Life and education
Born in Ris-Orangis, Essonne, France. In 1887 he ...
, Sully Prudhomme
René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme (; 16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.
Born in Paris, Prudhomme originall ...
, Henri Maldiney, Francine Bloch, Frédéric Rauh, Jean Cavaillès
Jean Cavaillès (; ; 15 May 1903 – 4 April 1944) was a French philosopher and logician who specialized in philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science. He took part in the French Resistance within the '' Libération'' movement and was a ...
, Julien Benda
Julien Benda (26 December 1867 – 7 June 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist, known as an essayist and cultural critic. He is best known for his short book, ''La Trahison des Clercs'' from 1927 (''The Treason of the Intellectuals'' or '' ...
, Georges Poyer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty. (; 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest an ...
, Georg Simmel, etc. More recently: Barbara Cassin, etc.
Some articles
* Reprinted in "The value of science" (1905a).
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* (Republished in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ''Sens et non-sens'', Paris, Éditions Nagel (1966) and in a 1966 edition of ''Sens et non-sens'' with new pagination by Éditions Gallimard, NRF, in the series 'Bibliothèque de philosophie', 1996, pp. 102–119.)
* Same text
in RTF)
See also
* Twentieth-century French philosophy
*Wahl's '' Collège philosophique'', whose lectures were sometimes published in the ''Revue''
References
External links
*
French Wikisource for articles published there
{{DEFAULTSORT:Revue De Metaphysique Et De Morale
French-language journals
Philosophy journals
Publications established in 1893
Quarterly journals