Brunschvicg, Leon
Brunschvicg, Leon
(1869-) Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale in Paris. Dismissed by the Nazis (1941). His philosophy is an idealistic synthesis of Spinoza, Kant and Schelling with special stress on the creative role of thought in cultural history as well as in sciences. Main worksLes etapes de la philosophie mathematique, 1913; L’experience humaine et la causalite physique, 1921; De la connaissance de soi, 1931.