Jean-Marie Guyau

Jean-Marie Guyau (October 28, 1854 - March 31, 1888) was a French philosopher and poet.

Guyau was inspired by the poetry and philosophy of Hugo, Corneille, Musset, Epictetus, Plato, and Kant. Having received his Bachelor of Arts at only 17 years of age, he translated the "Handbook" of Epictetus and taught at the Lycée Condorcet, where he wrote. Following the first attacks of his disease, he went to the South of France, where he remained until his death - he was 31. While in the South, he wrote many philosophical works and much poetry.

He was also the son of Augustine Tuillerie, who published the "Le Tour de France par deux enfants" in 1877 and Gayau's wife published, under the pseudonym of Pierre Ulric, romance briefs for youths.

Bibliography

* "Essai sur la morale littéraire". 1873.
* "Première année de lecture courante". 1875.
* "Morale d'Epicure". 1878.
* "Morale anglaise contemporaine". 1879.
* "Vers d'un philosophe".
* "Problèmes de l'esthétique contemporaine". 1884.
* "Esquisse d'une morale sans obligation ni sanction". 1884.
* "Irréligion de l'avenir". 1886, engl. "The Non-religion of the future", New York 1962
* "Education et Heredite. Etude sociologique." Paris 1902.

econdary literature

*Hoeges, Dirk. "Literatur und Evolution. Studien zur französischen Literaturkritik im 19. Jahrhundert. Taine - Brunetière - Hennequin - Guyau", Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1980. ISBN 3-533-02857-7
*Jordi Riba, La morale anomique de Jean-Marie Guyau, Paris [etc.] : L'Harmattan, 1999
*Marco Orru, The Ethics of Anomie: Jean Marie Guyau and Emile Durkheim, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Dec., 1983), pp. 499-518