Jean-Pierre Vernant 1914 – 2007
Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914 – 2007) was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and philosopher of ancient Greek thought, professor at the College de France, and the founding figure of the Paris school of structural anthropology of the Greek world. Myth and Thought among the Greeks and The Origins of Greek Thought reread the early Greeks as a culture in which religious, political, and philosophical categories took shape together, neither autonomously nor in opposition. With Pierre Vidal-Naquet he wrote Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, a landmark study of how the tragic form gave dramatic life to the central political and ethical conflicts of the polis.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Jean-Pierre Vernant:
“Greek thought did not emerge from myth; it emerged through it.”
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Attributed to Jean-Pierre Vernant:
“Tragedy is the political dramatization of the limits of the human.”
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Attributed to Jean-Pierre Vernant:
“The polis invented the citizen; the citizen invented philosophy.”
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Attributed to Jean-Pierre Vernant:
“To study the Greeks is to study a moment in which religion, politics, and reason were not yet separated.”
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Attributed to Jean-Pierre Vernant:
“The hero of tragedy is one who acts within a contradiction he cannot dissolve.”
Frequently asked about Jean-Pierre Vernant
- When did Jean-Pierre Vernant live?
- Jean-Pierre Vernant was born in 1914 and died in 2007.
- Where was Jean-Pierre Vernant from?
- Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era.
- What philosophical movements is Jean-Pierre Vernant associated with?
- Jean-Pierre Vernant was associated with Continental Philosophy.
- What was Jean-Pierre Vernant known for?
- Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and philosopher of ancient Greek thought, professor at the College de France, and the founding figure of the Paris school of structural anthropology of the Greek world.
- How many quotes are attributed to Jean-Pierre Vernant?
- There are 6 attributed quotations from Jean-Pierre Vernant in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.