Yvon Belaval
Yvon Belaval (24 February 1908 – 19 November 1988) was a French philosopher and philologist, specialist in Leibniz and the eighteenth century. Playing an important institutional role, he was at the origin of the revival of collective studies on the unpublished Leibnizian works. He was also secretary general of the International Institute of Philosophy.
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Biography
Yvon Belaval was born in Sète in the Hérault department. A sailor before turning to a teaching career, he taught at the Lyceum of Caen (1939–1940), a city where he met the man of letters Maurice Sachs, who he had known at the end of the 1920s in the entourage of Cocteau. He became a professor of philosophy at the Lyceum Montesquieu in Le Mans (1942–1947), then at the University of Lille, where he recruited the young Michel Foucault as an assistant in 1953.
In 1965, he joined the Sorbonne, where he ended his career. In 1969, along with Paul Ricœur, he was Foucault's unfortunate competitor to succeed Jean Hyppolite at the Collège de France, despite the support of Martial Gueroult.
He was also a visiting professor at Harvard University and Berkeley.
In 1963 he co-founded the French Society for the Study of the Eighteenth Century. In 1966 he became co-founder and vice-president of the Leibniz Association.
He edited the first volume of the History of Philosophy in the Encyclopédie de la Pléiade, published in 1973–1974.
Works
- Le souci de sincérité (1944)
- La rencontre avec Max Jacob (1945; 1974)
- La recherche de la poésie (1947)
- L'esthétique sans paradoxe de Diderot (1950)
- "Au siècle des Lumières." In: Histoire des littératures, Vol. 3 (1958), pp. 567–674.
- Les philosophes et leur langage (1952; translated by Norbert Guterman as Philosophers and their language, 1966)
- La pensée de Leibniz (1952)
- Les conduites d'échec. Essai sur l'anthropologie contemporaine (1953)
- Leibniz critique de Descartes (1960)
- Laboratoire central (1960)
- Leibniz, inititation à sa philosophie (1961; 1989)
- Remarques (1962)
- Poèmes d'aujourd'hui (1964)
- Nathalie Sarraute (1965)
- Histoire de la philosophie, Vol. 2: De la Renaissance à la révolution kantienne (1973-1974); Vol. 3: Du XIXe siècle à nos jours (1986-1991; editor)
- "Continu et discontinu en histoire de la philosophie." In: Philosophie et méthode (1974)
- L'avenir perdu (1975)
- Études leibniziennes (1976; 1993)
- "La synthèse kantienne au xviiie siècle", Studia Leibnitiana, Vol. XIV (1982)
- Le Siècle des Lumières et la Bible (1986; with Dominique Bourel)
- Leibniz de l'âge classique aux lumières. Lectures Leibniziennes (1995)
- "A quoi pensent les philosophes?", Autrement, No. 102 (nov. 1988), pp. 239–45.
References
- Fichant, Michel (1989). "Yvon Belaval (24 février 1908-19 novembre 1988)", Revue d'histoire des sciences, Vol. XLII, No. 4, pp. 407–12.
- Pappas, John (1991). "Yvon Belaval (1908-1988)", Diderot Studies, Vol. XXIV, pp. 243–44.
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