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Vladimir Jankélévitch
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| Born | 31 August 1903 Bourges, France
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| Died | 6 June 1985 (aged 81) Paris, France
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| Alma mater | École normale supérieure University of Lille |
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Notable work
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Le traité des vertus; Le-je-ne-sais-quoi et le presque-rien; Le paradoxe de la morale; La mort; L'Irréversible et la nostalgie |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Bergsonism Philosophy of life |
| Institutions | University of Toulouse University of Lille University of Paris Paris I University |
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Main interests
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Metaphysics, Ethics, Music, Temporality |
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Vladimir Jankélévitch (French: [ʒɑ̃kelevitʃ]; 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 École normale supérieure in Paris, under Professor Bergson. In 1924 he completed his DES thesis (diplôme d'études supérieures, roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) on Le Traité : la dialectique. Ennéade I 3 de Plotin under the direction of Émile Bréhier.
From 1927 to 1932 he taught at the Institut Français in Prague, where he wrote his doctorate on Schelling. He returned to France in 1933, where he taught at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and at many universities, including Toulouse and Lille. In 1941 he joined the French Resistance. After the war, in 1951, he was appointed to the chair of Moral Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I after 1971), where he taught until 1978.
In May 1968, he was among the few French professors to participate in the student protests.
The extreme subtlety of his thought is apparent throughout his works where the very slightest gradations are assigned great importance.
See also
In Spanish: Vladimir Jankélévitch para niños
