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French metaphysicians

  • VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
  • Émile DurkheimDavid Émile Durkheim was born on the 15th of April 1858 in Épinal, Lorraine. He entered a long lineage of devout Alsatian Jews stretching back eight…
  • Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was born on the 28th of November 1908 in Brussels. His parents were French Jews who had moved there for his father's work as a portrait…
  • Jean WahlJean Wahl entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris during a period when French philosophy was dominated by rigid academic traditions.