Name Vladimir Jankelevitch Region Western philosophy Influenced Arnold Davidson | Role Philosopher | |
Books Le je-ne-sais-quoi et le presque-rien, tome 1 Influenced by Henri Bergson, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling | ||
[PHILO] A quoi servent les philosophes ? - Vladimir Jankélévitch
Vladimir Jankélévitch ([ʒɑ̃kelevitʃ]; 31 August 1903 – 6 June 1985) was a French philosopher and musicologist.
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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.
The extreme subtlety of his thought is apparent throughout his works where the very slightest gradations are assigned great importance. Jankélévitch, who drew on Platonist, Neoplatonist and Greek Patristic sources in establishing his essentially agnostic thought, was resolute in his opposition to German philosophical influence.He was adamant in his refusal to extend forgiveness to Germany following the extermination of Jewish populations.
