Gustave Thibon

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Gustave Thibon
Saint-Marcel d'Ardèche, France
Died	19 January 2001(2001-01-19) (aged 97) Saint-Marcel d'Ardèche, France
Era	Modern philosophy 20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy French philosophy
School	Christian philosophy
Language	French, Provençal, Latin
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Gustave Thibon (French: [tibɔ̃]; 2 September 1903 – 19 January 2001) was a French philosopher.^[1] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times by Édouard Delebecque, in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1968.^[2]

Biography

Although essentially self-taught (he left school at the age of thirteen), Thibon was an avid reader – especially of poetry, in French,

. At the invitation of the latter, he started his literary career in the pages of the Revue Thomiste.

During World War II Thibon hosted the philosopher Simone Weil at his farm; he published S. Weil's work La Pesanteur et la Grâce (Gravity and Grace) in 1947.^[4]

Works

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Further reading

• Chabanis, Christian (1967). Gustave Thibon: Témoin de la Lumière. Paris: Beauchesne.
• Fraigneux, Maurice (1947). Introduction à Gustave Thibon. Paris: Pascal.
• Lemaire, Benoît (1980). L'Espérance sans Illusions. L'Espérance Chrétienne dans la Perspective de Gustave Thibon. Montréal: Éd. Paulines.
• Lemaire, Benoît (1984). "La Liberté au Centre du Conflit entre l'Esprit et la Vie." In: De la Philosophie comme Passion de la Liberté: Hommage à Alexis Klimov. Québec: Éditions du Beffroi, pp. 283–305.
• Massis, Henri (1967). Au Long d'une Vie. Le Message de Gustave Thibon. Paris: Plon.

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