Name Emile Brehier | ||
Émile Bréhier ([bʁeje]; 12 April 1876, Bar-le-Duc – 3 February 1952, Paris) was a French philosopher. His interest was in classical philosophy, and the history of philosophy. He wrote a Histoire de la Philosophie, translated into English in seven volumes.
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Life
Bréhier studied at the University of Paris. In 1908 he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne with a dissertation about Philo of Alexandria. He was Henri Bergson's successor at the University of Paris in 1945. The historian Louis Bréhier was his brother.
Thought
He was an early follower of Bergson; in the 1930s there was an influential view that Bergsonism and Neoplatonism were linked.
He has been called "the sole figure in the French history who adopts an Hegelian interpretation of Neoplatonism", but also a Neo-Kantian opponent of Hegel.