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Xavier Tilliette (23 July 1921, Corbie, Somme – 10 December 2018,
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) was a French philosopher, historian of philosophy, and
theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...
. A former student of
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 ...
and of
Vladimir Jankélévitch Vladimir Jankélévitch (; 31 August 1903 – 6 June 1985) was a French philosopher and musicologist. Biography Jankélévitch was the son of Russian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France. In 1922 he started studying philosophy at the Éco ...
, he was a member of the
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(1938) and professor emeritus at the
Catholic Institute of Paris The Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP), known in English as the Catholic University of Paris (and in Latin as ''Universitas catholica Parisiensis''), is a private university located in Paris, France. History: 1875–present The Institut Catholiq ...
(1969), having taught also at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome (1972), the
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, and the Centre Sèvres in Paris.


Biography

Xavier Tilliette also taught philosophy at various universities as a "visiting professor" in France and abroad:Stancampiano Simone,''Xavier Tilliette: Fede e sapere in dialogo''
''Giornale di filosofia''
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, Palermo. He spoke fluent English, Italian, German and Spanish, in addition to Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and he read Portuguese and Danish. A specialist in
Schelling Schelling is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: * Caroline Schelling (1763–1809), German intellectual * Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), German philosopher * Felix Emanuel Schelling (1858–1945), American educato ...
and Jaspers, he has been developing since the 1970s a "philosophical
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" which he initiated. In the tradition of Schelling and of
Maurice Blondel Maurice Blondel (; 2 November 1861 – 4 June 1949) was a French philosopher, whose most influential works, notably ''L'Action'', aimed at establishing the correct relationship between autonomous philosophical reasoning and Christian belief. Bi ...
, he defended and illustrated the idea of a
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born from
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. He was also a specialist of Claudel, of phenomenology (
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and
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 ...
), and of German
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. Xavier Tilliette was twice winner of a prize from the
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. Several of his works were translated into English, Italian, German, and Spanish. Among his teachers, disciples, or friends, along with Wahl and Jankélévitch, were
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, Gaston Fessard, Hans Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas,
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,
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, Paul Ricœur,
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,
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, Michel de Certeau, Stanislas Fumet, Maurice de Gandillac, Paul Doncœur,
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, Marcel Brion,
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, Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron, Francesco Tomatis. He was a member of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici and of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (''Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften of Munich''), the Centro studi filosofico-religiosi Luigi Pareyson, and, since 2006, a corresponding member Accademia di estetica internazionale de Rapallo. Xavier Tilliette was knight of the
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and of the
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. Tilliette died in
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on 10 December 2018 at the age of 97.


Selected bibliography

Xavier Tilliette wrote more than 2,000 essays, books, or articles; his more comprehensive bibliography contains over 250 pages. ;Books in French * 1960 ''Karl Jaspers'', Aubier, coll. « Théologie » * 1962 ''Existence et Littérature'', Desclée de Brouwer * 1962 ''Philosophes contemporains, Gabriel Marcel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Karl Jaspers'', Desclée de Brouwer * 1964 ''
Jules Lequier Jules Lequier (or Lequyer,Lequyer's birth certificate had "Lequier" but in 1834 his father had the spelling legally fixed as "Lequyer." ; 30 January 1814 – 11 February 1862) was a French philosopher from Brittany Brittany (; french: link=n ...
ou le tourment de la liberté'', Desclée de Brouwer * 1970 ''
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 ...
ou la mesure de l'homme'', Seghers * 1970 ''Schelling. Une philosophie en devenir'', t. I, ''Le Système vivant, 1794–1821'', t. II, ''La Dernière Philosophie, 1821–1854'', Vrin, rééd. 1992 * 1974–1977 ''Le Christ des philosophes'', 3 fascicules, ICP * 1978 ''Schelling. Textes esthétiques. Présentation et notes'', Klincksieck, coll. « L'esprit et les formes » * 1984 ''La Mythologie comprise. L'interprétation schellingienne du paganisme'', Bibliopolis, Naples * 1986 ''La Christologie idéaliste'', préface de Joseph Doré, Desclée de Brouwer, coll. « Jésus et Jésus-Christ », 240 p. * 1987 ''L'Absolu et la Philosophie. Essais sur Schelling'', coll. « Épiméthée », PUF * 1990 ''Le Christ de la philosophie'', Cerf, coll. « Cogitatio Fidei », 295 p., prix Montyon de l' Académie française 1991 * 1992 ''La Semaine sainte des philosophes'', Desclée, coll. « Jésus et Jésus-Christ » * 1993 ''Le Christ des philosophes : Du Maître de sagesse au divin Témoin'', Culture et Vérité, Namur * 1995 ''Recherches sur l'intuition intellectuelle, de
Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aest ...
à Hegel'', Vrin * 1999 ''Schelling'', Biographie, Calmann-Lévy, coll. « La vie des philosophes » * 2001 ''Les philosophes lisent la Bible'', Cerf, 200 p., prix du Cardinal Grente de l' Académie française ainsi que pour l'ensemble de son œuvre * 2001 ''La Mémoire et l'Invisible'', éd. Ad Solem, Genève * 2002 ''Jésus romantique'', Desclée-Mame * 2003 ''
Fichte Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; ; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Ka ...
. La science de la liberté'', préface de , Vrin * 2005 ''Le Jésuite et le Poète, Éloge jubilaire à Paul Claudel'', éd. de Paris, Versailles * 2006 ''L'Église des philosophes, de Nicolas de Cuse à
Gabriel Marcel Gabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel's work focused on the mode ...
'', Cer
Recension en ligne
in ''Esprit & Vie'' * 2006 ''Philosophies eucharistiques, de Descartes à Blondel'', Cerf, 180 p., médaille Humboldt 2006 * 2007 ''Une introduction à Schelling'', Honoré Champion ;With other authors * ''Jean Wahl et Gabriel Marcel'', avec Emmanuel Lévinas et Paul Ricœur, Beauchesne, 1976, 96 p., * ''Hommage au Père Marcel Régnier'', ''Archives de philosophie'', 1999
Présentation en ligne
;Written in Italian or in German * ''Il Cristo dei non-credenti e altri saggi di filosofia cristiana'', Editoria Ave, Roma, 1994 * ''Omaggi, Filosofi italiani del nostro tempo : Michele Federico Sciacca, Enrico Castelli Gattinara di Zubiena, Luigi Pareyson,
Augusto Del Noce Augusto Del Noce (11 August 1910 – 30 December 1989) was an Italian philosopher and political thinker. Life and works Del Noce was born in Tuscany but he grew up and studied in Turin, which between the two World Wars was one of the ma ...
, Alberto Caracciolo, Italo Mancini, Enrico Garulli, Arturo Massolo, Pasquale Salvucci'', Morcelliana, Brescia, 1997, 92 p. * ''Del male e del bene'', con Giuseppe Riconda (a cura di Francesco Tomatis), Città Nuova Editrice, Roma, 2001 * ''Che cos'è cristologia filosofica'', Morcelliana, 2004 * ''Schellings Pyrmonter Elegie. Der Briefwechsel mit Eliza Tapp, 1849–1854'' (en collaboration), V. Klostermann, Frankfurt-am-Main, 2000 ;Essays published in the following reviews * '' Étvdes'' * '' Recherches de science religieuse'' * '' Revue de métaphysique et de morale'' * '' Archives de philosophie'' * '' Communio'' * ''
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References


Further reading

* ''La filosofia come santità della ragione. Scritti in onore di Xavier Tilliette'', A cura di Antonio Russo & Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron, Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2004 * Simone Stancampiano, ''La cristologia filosofica in Xavier Tilliette'', Centro Studi Luigi Pareyson, Trauben, 2007
online


External links


Revue ''Conférence'', 2007, « Jean Wahl, mendiant de Dieu » by Xavier Tilliette

« Rosenzweig, philosophe de la religion »
by Xavier Tilliette

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