Léo Moulin

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Léo Moulin (25 February 1906 – 8 August 1996) was a sociologist and professor at the universities of Brussels, Louvain and Namur. A Belgian writer in French, he was particularly interested in the formation of European consciousness.

Biography

Léo Moulin was born in Brussels. He was resident of the Jean Jacobs Foundation in Bologna. In 1924, he attended the Free University of Brussels, where he was president of the Cercle du Libre Examen. He was subsequently appointed professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur and the College of Europe in Bruges. He was also President of the Belgian Institute of Political Science.

In 1978, he helped set up the "Sociologie et anthropologie de l'alimentation" (CR17) research committee of the AISLF (Association Internationale de Sociologie de Langue Française) together with Maxime Rodinson and Jean Pierre Corbeau. Moulin was interested in theology and Christian humanism, which in its monastic dimension is a formative element of Christian humanism and the European conscience. In 1979, he was awarded the Prix Thérouanne by the French Academy for La Vie quotidienne des religieux au Moyen Âge.[1]

He was vice-president of the International Federation of Food and Wine Press.

Private life

He was the husband of poet and essayist Jeanine Moulin and the father of jazz composer Marc Moulin.

Works

  • De Robespierre à Lénine (1937)
  • Du Traité de Versailles à l'Europe d'aujourd'hui 1919-1939 (1939)
  • Socialism of the West: An Attempt to Lay the Foundations of a New Socialist Humanism (1948)
  • Le monde vivant des religieux, Dominicains, Jésuites, Bénédictins (1964)
  • La société de demain dans l'Europe d'aujourd'hui (1966)
  • L’Aventure européenne. Introduction à une sociologie du développement économique de l'Occident (1972)
  • L'Europe à table: dis moi ce que tu manges (1975)
  • La Vie quotidienne des religieux au Moyen Âge (1978)
  • "La Nouvelle Trahison des clercs," La Revue générale (1978)
  • La Belgique à table (1979)
  • Saint Benoît, père de l'Occident (1980)
  • Ces Belges reflets de la Belgique (1980)
  • "Les origines médiévales de la transnationalité." In: Actes du Forum mondial des associations internationales (1980)
  • "Nous, rois des Belges." In: 1831-1981, 150 ans de monarchie constitutionnelle (1981; contribution)
  • La Gauche, la droite et le péché originel (1984)
  • L'Europe des monastères (1988; contribution)
  • Aux racines profondes de l'Europe (1988)
  • Les Liturgies de la table. Une histoire culturelle du manger et du boire (1988)
  • Les universités catholiques en Europe. études et prospectives (1990; contributor)
  • La vie quotidienne des religieux au Moyen Age. X—XV siecle (1990)
  • La vie des étudiants au Moyen Âge (1991)
  • "L'Europe, fille aînée du Moyen Age." In: Philosophie politique (1991)
  • Libre parcours - Itinéraire spirituel d'un agnostique (1995)
  • Moi et les autres - Petit traité de l'agressivité au quotidien (1996)

Notes

  1. "Léo Moulin," Académie Française.

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