Émile Bréhier

Émile Bréhier (1876-1952) was a French philosopher. His interest was in classical philosophy, and the history of philosophy. He wrote a Histoire de la Philosophie, translated into English in seven volumes.

Bréhier was Henri Bergson's successor at the Sorbonne, in 1944. The historian Louis Bréhier was his brother.

Views

He was an early follower of Bergson; in the 1930s there was an influential view that Bergsonism and Neoplatonism were linked.

He has been called "the sole figure in the French history who adopts an Hegelian interpretation of Neoplatonism, but also a Neo-Kantian opponent of Hegel.

Works

• Schelling (1912)
• Histoire de la philosophie allemande (1921)
• La Philosophie de Plotin
• Plotin: Ennéades (with French translation), Collection Budé, 1924-1938
• Histoire de la philosophie - I Antiquité et moyen age (three volumes), II La philosophie moderne (four volumes)
• Histoire de la philosophie, fascicule supplémentaire: la philosophie en Orient (1948) with P. Masson-Oursel
• Chrysippe et l'ancien stoicisme (Paris, 1951)
• Études de philosophie antique (1955)

References

• Alan D. Schrift (2006), Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes And Thinkers, p. 107

Notes

External links

• IDIH page
• Biography