Xavier Tilliette
Xavier Tilliette is a philosopher , historian of philosophy and theologian born French 23 July 1921 at Corbie ( Somme ). Former student of Jean Wahl and Vladimir Janklvitch , he is a member of the Society of Jesus ( 1938 ) and professor emeritus at the Catholic Institute of Paris ( 1969 ), the Gregorian University in Rome ( 1972 ), the University Lateran and the Centre Svres and Jaspers , it develops from the 1970's a " philosophical Christology "which he is the initiator . In the tradition of Schelling and Maurice Blondel , he defends and illustrates the idea of a Christian philosophy born of the Revelation. There is also a specialist Claudel and German idealism.
Xavier Tilliette was twice winner of a prize from the French Academy. Several of his works were translated into German, Spanish, English and Italian.
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Originally both artesian and Breton , Xavier Tilliette is the second in a family of eight children. His father is a childhood friend of Georges Bernanos. After completing his primary and secondary school of the Immaculate Conception of Laval , Xavier Tilliette obtained at the age of 16 years the French Baccalaureate and the German Abitur. The following year, in 1938, he joined the Jesuit order to begin her novitiate. This calling came to him from the age of 12.
At the same time, he developed a passion for poetry, especially that of the symbolists , Valry and Apollinaire, while the verses of Paul Claudel did not attract much at first. Then, attracted by the force of metaphors and rhythm Claudel, it reads in the space of two or three years the whole work of the author, where he became a specialist. Xavier Tilliette publish such correspondence with Claudel Franoise Marcilly. Over the literary columns he published later in tvdes Claudel remains for him the great Christian poet, even more than Patrice de La Tour du Pin. At the same time as his literary activities, he published many film critics, including the neorealism Italian but also in a particular field of interest: the biographical films, which represent for him the younger brother of literary biography. He is one of the founders of the magazine Positif and also contributes to Film Studies.
During his formative years, Xavier gets a Tilliette OF in Classics and German. He stayed successively in Laval, the former college Mongre at Villefranche-sur-Saone to Lyon. There he discovered the texts of Teilhard de Chardin , then put away the Company. The work of Teilhard'm struck with a curse, it is widely read and circulated among the Jesuits, more than Poucel Victor , who also expresses a Christianity "glorious", "triumphant," but within the line Company. In Lyon, various pharmacies offer editions of Teilhard cheap, more or less legal. These two forms of spirituality, one faithful to the tradition and the other illegal sticks in two generations of Jesuits in the 1920s to the 1950s. Xavier Tilliette come off later the influence of Teilhard, while seeing in him, above all, a writer lyrical style oratory.
Ordained in 1951 , he was appointed professor of philosophy at Paris , the college " Franklin ", first from 1947 to 1949 and from 1954 to 1957. He teaches phenomenology and existentialism , before lecturing at Jesuit Scholasticate of Chantilly on the phenomenology of Husserl , among others, from 1961 to 1966. Marked by the thought of Sartre , but also and especially by that of Merleau-Ponty , he is a disciple of Jean Wahl then Janklvitch Vladimir , where he became a close friend. Fond of Kierkegaard , for Jaspers , of Hegel , he follows the advice of Jean Wahl, who suggested to orient its work towards' later philosophy of Schelling , that is to say the Sptphilosophie: the "philosophy of revelation. " He obtained his doctorate in theology and philosophy in Sorbonne with a dissertation on Schelling in two volumes in 1969.
Professor of the History of Philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Paris (1969), where he finds his former student John Greisch , he alternates his semester courses with those it gives the Gregorian University in Rome from 1972. Teacher at the Lateran University and the Centre Sevres , he is a visiting professor at many foreign universities : Lima , Santiago , Berlin , Bremen , Freiburg , Heidelberg , Hamburg , Munich , Bonn , Tubingen , Turin , Ferrara , Urbino , Rome , Macerata , Naples , Palermo. He speaks fluent English, Italian, German and Spanish, in addition to Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and reads Portuguese and Danish. This brings the cosmopolitan culture of the writer Marcel Brion and his wife Liliane, which binds a long friendship .
Among other friends, teachers or disciples Xavier Tilliette include : Hans Urs von Balthasar , Karl Rahner , Henri de Lubac , Gaston Fessard , Hans Georg Gadamer , Jrgen Habermas , Merleau-Ponty , Jean-Paul Sartre , Albert Bguin , Louis Bouyer , Jean Danielou , Emmanuel Levinas , Paul Ricoeur , Gabriel Marcel , Ambroise-Marie Carr , Yves Congar , Michel de Certeau , Stanislas broth , Maurice Gandillac , Paul Doncur , Pierre Blet , Robert Bresson , Enrico Castelli , Luigi Pareyson , Michel Henry , Claude BRUAIRE , Varillon Francis , Albert Vanhoye , Jean-Luc Marion , Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron.
In 1993, the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in southern Italy called the doctor honoris causa. Winner of two awards from the French Academy (the price Montyon in 1991 and the price of Cardinal Grente in 2001) and the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (for his book Philosophies Eucharistic , 2006) he received in Berlin medal Humboldt in 2001. Member of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Xavier Tilliette was elected in 2002 at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munich and in 2006, corresponding to the Accademia di estetica internazionale Rapallo. He is Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Selected Publications
The work of Xavier Tilliette includes more than 2000 tests in the form of books, articles and prefaces, some of which were written directly in Italian or German.
- French-language works
- 1960 Karl Jaspers, Aubier, coll. "Theology"
- 1962 Existence and Literature, Descle Brouwer
- 1962 Philosophers contemporaries, Gabriel Marcel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Karl Jaspers, Descle Brouwer
- 1964 Jules Lequier or the torment of freedom, Descle Brouwer
- 1970 Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the measure of man, Seghers
- Schelling 1970. Become a philosophy, t. I, The Living system, 1794-1821, t. II, The Last Philosophy, 1821-1854, Vrin, repr. 1992
- 1974-1977 Christ of philosophers, 3 booklets, ICP
- Schelling 1978. Aesthetic texts. Introduction and notes, Klincksieck, coll. "The spirit and forms"
- 1984 The Mythology included. Schelling's interpretation of paganism, Bibliopolis, Naples
- 1986 The Christology idealistic, foreword by Joseph Gold , Descle de Brouwer, coll. "Jesus Christ", 240 p.
- 1987 The Absolute Philosophy. Essays on Schelling al. "Epimetheus", PUF
- 1990 Christ's philosophy , Cerf, coll. "Cogitatio Fidei, 295 p., price Montyon of the French Academy 1991
- 1992 The Holy Week of philosophers, Descle, coll. "Jesus Christ"
- 1993 The Christ of philosophers : The Master of the divine wisdom witness, Culture and Truth, Namur
- 1995 Research on the intellectual intuition of Kant to Hegel , Vrin
- Schelling 1999, Biography, Calmann-Levy, et al. "The Lives of Philosophers"
- 2001 Philosophers read the Bible , Cerf, 200 p., price of Cardinal Grente the French Academy and for lifetime achievement
- 2002 Memory and the Invisible , ed. Ad Solem , Geneva
- 2002 Jesus romantic Descle-Mame, online census in Spirit & Life
- 2003 Fichte. Scientific Freedom, foreword by Reinhard Lauth , Vrin
- 2005 The Jesuit and the Poet, Praise Jubilee by Paul Claudel, ed. Paris, Versailles
- 2006 The Church of philosophers , to Nicolas of Cusa to Gabriel Marcel , Cerf census online in Spirit & Life
- 2006 Eucharistic Philosophy , from Descartes to Blondel, Cerf, 180 p., Humboldt Medal 2006
- 2007 An introduction to Schelling's Honore Champion
- Prefaces and articles written in collaboration
- Jean Wahl and Gabriel Marcel, with Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur , Beauchesne, 1976, 96 p., ISBN 2-7010-0240-0
- Tribute to Father Marcel Regnier , Archives of Philosophy , 1999, Online Presentation
- Books written in Italian and German
- It Cristo dei Non-Credentes filosofia e altri Saggi in cristiana, Editoria Ave, Roma, 1994
- Omaggi, Filosofi italiani del nostro tempo: Michele Federico Sciacca , Enrico Castelli Gattinara di Zubiena , Luigi Pareyson , Augusto Del Noce , Alberto Caracciolo , Italo Mancini , Enrico Garulli Arturo Massolo, Pasquale Salvucci, Morcelliana, Brescia, 1997, 92 p.
- Del bene e del male, in collab. Riconda with Giuseppe (a cura di Francesco Tomasoni), Citt Nuova Editrice, Roma, 2001
- Che cos' the cristologia filosofica, Morcelliana, 2004
- Pyrmont Elegie shillings. Der Briefwechsel mit Eliza Tapp, 1849-1854 (in collaboration), V. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 2000
- Articles published in journals
Xavier Tilliette contributed to a quarantine of magazines and newspapers, including:
- Philosophy: Review of metaphysics and morality , philosophy Archive , Social Science Research ( CNRS ) Archivio di filosofia, Annuario filosofico
- Theology: tvdes , searches of religious science , Communio , Christus , The Civilt Cattolica , Gregorianum
- General press and literary: The Revue des Deux Mondes , Le Figaro , La Croix , Le Monde , Erasmus , Bulletin of the company Paul Claudel, L'Osservatore Romano , wrote Body
- Film: Positive , The Film Studies
Bibliography
- The Christ of philosophers, online census by Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron
- The Holiness come filosofia delle razione. Scritti in onore di Xavier Tilliette, A cura di Antonio Russo & Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron , Edizioni Universit di Trieste, 2004
- Simone Stancampiano, The cristologia filosofica in Tilliette Xavier, Centro Studi Luigi Pareyson, Trauben, 2007 Census Online
- There are several bibliographies of the work of Xavier Tilliette: those of Antonio Russo, Matteo Monaco, William Nansot and Michael Sales. The most comprehensive nearly 200 pages . They are:
- Matteo Monaco, Bibliografia di Xavier Tilliette, pref. Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron , intro. Antonio Russo, 192 p., Edizioni Universit di Trieste, Ottobre 2002
Notes
- Text of Xavier Tilliette, "In my own business", excerpt of the review conference, updated April 23, 2009.
- Tilliette Xavier is considered the best French specialist of Schelling. See Note CNRS.
- Giuliano Sansonetti, in preface to The Church of philosophers , Editions du Cerf, 2006.
- Stancampiano Simone, "Xavier Tilliette: Fede e sapere in dialogo", Giornale di filosofia.
- Xavier Tilliette, Memory and the Invisible, p. 9.
- Emmanuel Levinas: the problems of subjectivity by Xavier Tilliette
- Site eds. Cerf
- Excerpts from the bibliography on the site jesuites.com.
Notes
- Review Conference, 2007, "Jean Wahl, begging for God" by Xavier Tilliette
- "Rosenzweig, a philosopher of religion" by Xavier Tilliette
- "The cristologia filosofica di Xavier Tilliette" by Giuliano Sansonetti
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