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Jean Wahl

Born

in Marseille, France

May 25, 1888

Died

June 19, 1974

Genre

Philosophy

Influences

Søren Kierkegaard; Emmanuel Levinas; Gabriel Marcel; Georges Bataille; ...more

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French philosopher. 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 to 1945, having been interned as a Jew at the Drancy internment camp (north-east of Paris) and then escaped.

He began his career as a follower of Henri Bergson and the American pluralist philosophers William James and George Santayana. He is known as one of those introducing Hegelian thought in France in the 1930s (his book on Hegel was published in 1929). He was also a champion in French thought of the Danish proto-existentialist Søren Kierkegaard. These enthusiasms, which became the significant books Le malheur de la conscience dans la philosophie de Hegel (1929) a ...more

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Jean Wahl’s books

Average rating: 3.99 · 1,358 ratings · 79 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Short History of Existentialism by Jean Wahl, Forrest Williams (Translator), Stanley Maron (Translator) 3.46 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1949 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الفلسفة الفرنسية من ديكارت إلى سارتر by Jean Wahl, جان فال, مارون عيسى الخوري (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1962 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophies of Existence - An Introduction to Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel & Sartre. Translated by F.M. Lory. RKP. 1969. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1962 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Existence and Transcendence by Jean Wahl, William C. Hackett (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings by Jean Wahl, Alan D Schrift (Editor), Ian Alexander Moore (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	بحث در مابعدالطبیعه by Jean Wahl, یحیی مهدوی (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Malheur De La Conscience Dans La Philosophie De Hegel 3.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1929 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El Ser, la Existencia y la Realidad 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1948	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kierkegaard: L'Un devant l'Autre (Coup Double) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introduction a Pensee de Heidegger (Ldp Bib.Essais) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars