Pierre Boutang

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Pierre Boutang
Neoscholasticism, Christian philosophy, Christian existentialism
Notable worksLes Abeilles de Delphes, Ontologie du secret and Apocalypse du désir
Notable awardsPrix Gustave Le Métais-Larivière
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Pierre Boutang (20 September 1916 – 27 June 1998) was a French philosopher, poet and translator. He was also a political journalist, associated with the currents of

Royalism
.

Biography

Boutang was an alumnus of the

Ecole Normale Supérieure (L 1935) and "agrégé de philosophie" in 1936, he participated that year in editing Action Française and showed fervent support for the ideas of Charles Maurras. He was a member of Giraud's government in North Africa in 1943, and enlisted in the French colonial army, serving in Tunisia and Morocco. He was discharged without pension and prohibited from teaching. Thereafter he took up journalism, collaborating on Aspects de la France, where his articles from a royalist viewpoint showed obvious antisemitism.[1]
He was a regular contributor to Bulletin de Paris, where using a pseudonym, he reviewed plays.

Seeking to renew

Comte de Paris
.

After representations by

Sorbonne, where he taught until 1984, continuing his seminars at his home in Saint-Germain-en-Laye
until the end of his life. He died on 27 June 1998.

Works

Non-fiction

  • Amis du Maréchal (with Henri Dubreuil, 1941).
  • Sartre est-il un Possédé? (1946).
  • La Politique: la Politique Considérée comme Souci (1948).
  • La République de Joinovici (1949).
  • Les Abeilles de Delphes (1952).
  • Commentaire sur Quarante-neuf Dizains de la 'Délie' (1953).[2]
  • La Terreur en Question (1958).
  • L'Ontologie du Secret (1973).
  • Reprendre le Pouvoir (1977).
  • Gabriel Marcel Interrogé (1977).
  • Apocalypse du Désir (1979).
  • La Fontaine Politique (1981).
  • Précis de Foutriquet. Contre Giscard (1981).
  • Maurras, la destinée et l’œuvre
     (1984).
  • Art Poétique (1988).
  • Karin Pozzi ou la Quête de l'Immortalité (1991).
  • Le Temps. Essai sur l'Origine (1993).
  • Dialogues. Sur le Mythe d'Antigone. Sur le Sacrifice d'Abraham (with George Steiner, 1994).
  • La Fontaine. Les "Fables" ou la Langue des Dieux (1995).
  • William Blake Manichéen et Visionnaire (1990).

Posthumous

  • La Source Sacrée (Les Abeilles de Delphes II, 2003).
  • Dialogue sur le Mal (with George Steiner, 2003).
  • La Guerre de Six Jours (2011).

Fiction

  • La Maison un Dimanche. Suivi de Chez Madame Dorlinde (1947).
  • Quand le Furet s'Endort (1948).
  • Le Secret de René Dorlinde (1958).
  • Le Purgatoire (1976).

Translations

References

  1. ISBN 978-2-07-073375-0
  2. ^ Febvre, Lucien (1954). "Pierre Boutang, Commentaire sur Quanrante-neuf Dizains de la Délie," Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 114–115.
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