Stanislas Breton (3 June 1912 – 2 April 2005) was a French theologian and philosopher. He taught at the

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in Paris, the

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and the

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. Stanislas Breton was born in

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, and at the age of fifteen entered the

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as a novitiate. His doctoral thesis, under

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, was on Nicolaï Hartmann.J. Ladrière
Présentation du R. P. Stanislas Breton
'' Revue Philosophique de Louvain'' Vol. 88, Issue 78 (1990), pp.302-6. After teaching at the Pontifical University in Rome in the 1950s, Breton became Professor of Philosophy at the

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and then at the Catholic University of Paris. In 1970 he was appointed Maître de Conférence at the École Normale Supérieure: nominated by

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, he was the first Catholic philosopher to obtain the post.

Works

* ''L'esse in et l'esse ad dans la métaphysique de la relation'', Rome, 1951 * ''La Passion du Christ et les philosophies'', Teramo: Eco, 1954 * ''Conscience et intentionalité'', Paris-Lyon: Vitte'', 1956 * ''Approches phénoménologiques de l'idée dêtre'', Paris: E. Vitte, 1959 * ''Situation de la philosophie contemporaine'', Paris: E. Vitte, 1959 * ''Essence et existence'', Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1962. * ''L'être spirituel; recherches sur la philosophie de Nicolaï Hartmann'', Lyon: E. Vitte, 1962. * ''Mystique de la Passion'', Tournai: Desclée, 1962 * ''Saint Thomas d'Aquin'', Paris: Seghers, 1965 * ''Philosophie et mathématiques chez Proclus'', Paris: Beauchesne, 1969 * ''Du Principe: l'organisation contemporaine de pensable'', Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1971 * ''La Foi et raison logique'', Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1971 * ''Etre, monde, imaginaire'', Paris: Seuil, 1976. * ''Théorie des idéologies'', Paris: Desclée, 1976 * ''Spinoza: théologie et politique'', Paris: Desclée, 1977 * ''Ecriture et révélation'', Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1979 * ''Le verbe et la croix'', Paris: Desclée, 1981. Translated with an introduction by Jacquelyn Porter as ''The Word and the Cross'', New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. * ''Unicité et monothéisme'', Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1981. * ''Deux mystiques de l'excès: J.-J. Surin et maître Eckhart'', Paris: Cerf, 1985. * ''Rien ou quelque chose: roman de métaphysique'', Paris: Flammarion, 1987 * ''Poétique du sensible'', Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1988 * ''Saint Paul'', Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1988. Translated by Joseph N. Bellan with an introduction by Ward Blanton as ''A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul'', New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. * ''Matière et dispersion'', Grenoble: J. Millon, 1993 * ''L’avenir du christianisme'', Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1999

References

External links

Stanislas Breton: Questioning the Essence of Christianity
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