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Pierre Boutang | |
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 Boutang in 1959 | |
| Born | (1916-09-20)20 September 1916 |
| Died | 27 June 1998(1998-06-27) (aged 81) Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France |
| Occupation | philosopher, poet, translator, journalist |
| Genre | Neoscholasticism,Christian philosophy,Christian existentialism |
| Notable works | Les Abeilles de Delphes, Ontologie du secret and Apocalypse du désir |
| Notable awards | Prix Gustave Le Métais-Larivière |
Pierre Boutang (20 September 1916 – 27 June 1998) was a French philosopher, poet and translator. He was also a political journalist, associated with the currents ofMaurrasianism andRoyalism.
Boutang was an alumnus of theEcole Normale Supérieure (L 1935) and "agrégé de philosophie" in 1936, he participated that year in editingAction Française and showed fervent support for the ideas ofCharles Maurras. That same year, while still a student, he married Marie-Claire Canque, a Hellenist, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure like him, and who bore him six children.[1]
He was a member ofGiraud's government inNorth Africa in 1943, and enlisted in the French colonial army, serving inTunisia andMorocco until 1945. He was discharged without pension and prohibited from teaching. Thereafter he took up journalism, collaborating, since its founding in 1947, atAspects de la France, where his articles from a royalist viewpoint showed obviousantisemitism.[2] He was a regular contributor toBulletin de Paris, where using a pseudonym, he reviewed plays.
Seeking to renewroyalism, in alignment withChristianity, with his friendMichel Vivier he founded the weeklyLa Nation Française in 1955, to whichLes Hussards and alsoMarcel Aymé,Gustave Thibon, andArmand Robin contributed. It ceased to exist in 1967. He wanted to create "a Sartre shelter" that also functioned against the adherents ofnihilism. He veered between supportingCharles de Gaulle and opposing him, insisting notably on the monarchical model on which, in his view, the constitution of theCinquième République rested. Though he denounced the terror for which theFLN was responsible, Boutang refused to support theOAS. From the 1970s, his political declarations became rarer, but he showed a firm loyalty to theComte de Paris.
After representations byEdmond Michelet,Alain Peyrefitte and others, Boutang was allowed to teach by President de Gaulle in 1967. He taught philosophy at the Lycée Turgot, and then became a lecturer at the University of Brest in 1974. Finally he was appointed Professeur of Metaphysics at theSorbonne, where he taught until 1984, continuing his seminars at his home inSaint-Germain-en-Laye until the end of his life. He died on 27 June 1998.
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