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Emmanuel Mounier ( / muːnˈjeɪ /; French: [munje]; 1 April 1905 – 22 March 1950) was a French philosopher, theologian, teacher and essayist. Biography. Mounier was the guiding spirit in the French personalist movement, and founder and director of Esprit, the magazine which was the organ of the movement. He was a brilliant scholar at the Sorbonne.
Nov 12, 2009 · Between the First and Second World Wars the French personalist movement revolved around a monthly journal, Esprit, founded by Emmanuel Mounier (1905–1950) and a group of friends in 1932. In the face of economic collapse and political and moral disorientation, these French personalists proposed the human person as the criterion according to ...
Emmanuel Mounier, né le 1er avril 1905 à Grenoble et mort le 22 mars 1950 à Châtenay-Malabry, est un philosophe catholique français, fondateur de la revue Esprit et à l'origine du courant personnaliste en France.
Emmanuel Mounier, the French personalist philosopher, was born in Grenoble. He studied philosophy from 1924 to 1927 in Grenoble and in Paris, where he was successful in the agrégation examination of 1928.
In Western Europe, French thinker Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950) developed personalism into a more political and activist movement. In 1932, he founded the periodical Esprit, which became the main outlet for personalism and attained great influence, not least in France.
At the end of his book ‘Personalism’ (1949), Emmanuel Mounier argues that his greatest desire was to see the word personalism forgotten. Mounier (1950, p. 133) speaks of this situation in the
In France, philosopher Emmanuel Mounier (1905–1950) was the leading proponent of personalism, around which he founded the review Esprit, which exists to this day. Under Jean-Marie Domenach's direction, it criticized the use of torture during the Algerian War.
