Stanislas Breton (3 June 1912 – 2 April 2005) was a French theologian and philosopher. He taught at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Catholic University of Paris and the Catholic University of Lyon.
Stanislas Breton was born in Gradignan, and at the age of fifteen entered the Passionists as a novitiate. His doctoral thesis, under Raymond Aron, was on Nicolaï Hartmann. After teaching at the Pontifical University in Rome in the 1950s, Breton became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyons and then at the Catholic University of Paris. In 1970 he was appointed Maître de Conférence at the École Normale Supérieure: nominated by Louis Althusser, he was the first Catholic philosopher to obtain the post.
L'esse in et l'esse ad dans la métaphysique de la relation, Rome, 1951
La Passion du Christ et les philosophies, Teramo: Eco, 1954
Conscience et intentionalité, Paris-Lyon: Vitte, 1956
Approches phénoménologiques de l'idée dêtre, Paris: E. Vitte, 1959
Situation de la philosophie contemporaine, Paris: E. Vitte, 1959
Essence et existence, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1962.
L'être spirituel; recherches sur la philosophie de Nicolaï Hartmann, Lyon: E. Vitte, 1962.
Mystique de la Passion, Tournai: Desclée, 1962
Saint Thomas d'Aquin, Paris: Seghers, 1965
Philosophie et mathématiques chez Proclus, Paris: Beauchesne, 1969
Du Principe: l'organisation contemporaine de pensable, Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1971
La Foi et raison logique, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1971
Etre, monde, imaginaire, Paris: Seuil, 1976.
Théorie des idéologies, Paris: Desclée, 1976
Spinoza: théologie et politique, Paris: Desclée, 1977
Ecriture et révélation, Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1979
Le verbe et la croix, Paris: Desclée, 1981. Translated with an introduction by Jacquelyn Porter as The Word and the Cross, New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.
Unicité et monothéisme, Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1981.
Deux mystiques de l'excès: J.-J. Surin et maître Eckhart, Paris: Cerf, 1985.
Rien ou quelque chose: roman de métaphysique, Paris: Flammarion, 1987
Poétique du sensible, Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1988
Saint Paul, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1988. Translated by Joseph N. Bellan with an introduction by Ward Blanton as A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Matière et dispersion, Grenoble: J. Millon, 1993
L’avenir du christianisme, Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1999