Ferdinand Alqui

Alqui Ferdinand, born on December 18 1906 at Carcassonne ( Aude ) and died on 28 February 1985 in Montpellier ( Hrault ), is a French writer and philosopher.

Biography

Alqui Ferdinand was born into a family Catholic and royalist winegrowers. His father is a professor in the School of Carcassonne. He studied himself in this school and in this city where he made the acquaintance of Ren Nelli and Joe Bousquet which affect his interest in literature and the surrealism.

In his paper of 1927 .

In 1955 he published Philosophy of Surrealism.

Ferdinand Alqui has published books on Rene Descartes , Immanuel Kant and Baruch Spinoza. He is quoted as a consultant in the credits of the film Roberto Rossellini "Cartesius" (1973), about the life of Descartes.

He was elected member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1975. Jean Guitton was succeeded in 1987 .

Alqui and Cartesianism

It has often opposed Martial Gueroult , especially during a controversy about Descartes: Descartes Alqui sees above all the philosophical gesture, Gueroult "order of reasons".

Alqui and Surrealism

Alqui considers the surrealism as a form of philosophy. It is an act of liberation and simultaneously a form of self-knowledge. Libertinism is less as a form of hedonism as a form of authenticity and morality. Surrealism is a form of art because it is a report on the life , as a "deliverance from the reality as it is before our eyes": "if art is not life, it is to reject ". Surrealism was a means of relating to nature in the way of enjoyment.

The philosophy of surrealism is a theory of love, life, imagination, reports of man and the world. Surrealism is a form of "total liberation" and at the same time a "pursuit of truth." It is not incompatible with the metaphysical to the extent where he is also "the messenger of some transcendence" .

In 1966, a decade Alqui leads to Cerisy-the-room location addressed the question of the history of Surrealism (Interviews on surrealism). It does not define himself as surreal, but as someone who writes on surrealism. It is also not the Surrealist group and wants to speak from outside. (Some participants criticized, moreover, the academic setting for discussion and submission to the "official culture".) Alqui this opportunity to thank Andr Breton , who has just died, teaching him, when he was twenty years "the wonderful sense of the word 'freedom'" .

Works

• Lesson of Philosophy, 2 vols., Didier, 1931-1951.
• Notes on the first part of the Philosophy of Descartes , Building Publishing, 1933.
• Moral Problem, Building Publishing, 1933.
• States representative, Building Publishing, 1934.
• Movements and actions, Building Publishing, 1934.
• Plans of general philosophy, Building Publishing, 1934 reissue The Round Table, "The Little Vermilion", 2000.
• Science, Building Publishing, 1934.
• Duties and moral life (special legal plans), Building Publishing, 1935.
• Notions of general psychology, Building Publishing, 1935.
• Trends and reason, the Building Publishing, 1935.
• Scientific mathematics, material sciences and life, Building Publishing, 1936.
• Briefs representative, Building Publishing, 1936.
• Affective states, Building Publishing, 1937.
• Operations intellectual Building Publishing, 1937.
• Desire for eternity, PUF, 1943.
• Introduction to the Reading of the Critique of Pure Reason, PUF, 1943.
• Discovery metaphysics of Descartes man, PUF, 1950.
• The nostalgia of being, PUF, 1950.
• Science and Metaphysics in Descartes, Les Cours de Sorbonne, CDU, 1955.
• Philosophy of Surrealism , Flammarion, 1955.
• Descartes , the man and his work, letter knowledge, Hatier, 1956.
• Experience, PUF, 1957.
• Edition of selected texts of the Ethics of Spinoza , PUF, 1961.
• Edition of the Philosophical Works of Descartes, 3 vols., Garnier, 1963-1973.
• Nature and truth in the philosophy of Spinoza, The Course of the Sorbonne, CDU, 1965.
• Solitude of reason, The Wasteland, 1966.
• Critics of Kantian metaphysics, PUF, 1968.
• Talks on surrealism, W. de Gruyter, 1968.
• Significance of philosophy, Hachette, 1971.
• Of Cartesianism Malebranche , Vrin, 1974.
• Malebranche and Christian rationalism, Seghers, 1977.
• Consciousness emotional, Vrin, 1979.
• The rationalism of Spinoza, PUF, 1981.
• Bondage and freedom in Spinoza, The Course of the Sorbonne, CDU.
• The moral of Kant , Les Cours de Sorbonne, 1957.
• Edition of Kant's philosophical works, 3 vols., Gallimard, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1980, 1984, 1986.
• Cartesian studies, Vrin, 1983.
• What that understanding a philosopher?

References

• Philosophy portal

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