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Logique d'un monde en ruine - Six essais philosophiques

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Hermann Broch (1886-1951) figure certainement, avec Proust, Musil et Joyce, au panthéon des grands inventeurs de roman du vingtième siècle. Mais le public francophone sait peu qu’il se consacra ­également à l’écriture d’une importante œuvre ­philosophique, sans jamais vouloir parvenir à lui donner une forme définitive.Les six essais publiés ici ont été écrits entre 1931 et 1946 et rendent compte de sa «théorie de la connaissance», fondée sur une conception très personnelle du concept de valeur. Portant sur des sujets apparemment divers, comme la musique, la poésie ou la psychanalyse, ils concernent une seule et même question : comment la raison peut-elle permettre de saisir ce qui, dans toute activité humaine, dépasse le champ de la raison ?

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) est l'auteur d'une oeuvre romanesque hors du commun publiée en français chez Gallimard (La mort de Virgile, Les somnambules, le Tentateur, etc.), et d'une oeuvre philosophique inachevée, dont la pièce maîtresse reste sa Théorie de la folie des masses (l'éclat, 2005).Né à Vienne, il est emprisonné par les nazis, après l'annexion de l'Autriche. Grâce à l'aide de James Joyce il est libéré et parvient à gagner les USA où il vivra le reste de sa vie.

224 pages, Pocket Book

First published July 4, 2004

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Hermann Broch

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Broch was born in Vienna to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family's factory in Teesdorf, though he maintained his literary interests privately. He attended a technical college for textile manufacture and a spinning and weaving college. Later, in 1927, he sold the textile factory and decided to study mathematics, philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna.

In 1909 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married Franziska von Rothermann, the daughter of a knighted manufacturer. This marriage dured until 1923.

He started as a full-time writer when he was 40. When "The Sleepwalkers," his first novel, was published, he was 45. The year was 1931.

In 1938, when the Nazis annexed Austria, he emigrated to Britain after he was briefly arrested. After this, he moved to the United States. In his exile, he helped other persecuted Jews.

In 1945 was published his masterpiece, "The Dead of Virgil." After this, he started an essay on mass behaviour, which remained unfinished.

Broch died in 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize and considered one of the major Modernists.

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