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Raymond Klibansky - A Life in Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Raymond Klibansky - A Life in Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Born in Paris in 1905 to a German-Jewish family from Frankfurt and
dying a century later in Montreal, Raymond Klibansky lived a life
indelibly coloured by the history of the twentieth century. His
thought shaped and was shaped by intellectual currents both
European and American, and his scholarly work entailed an
intellectual reckoning with tradition that was unique in its scope
and ambition, long before talk of academic interdisciplinarity.
Klibansky, a student of Karl Jaspers and Ernst Cassirer, was
educated in the liberal milieu of the Weimar Republic. Forced to
emigrate from Germany in 1933, Klibansky spent the war years in
London, where he participated in the British war effort. Working in
the tradition established by Aby Warburg and the Warburg Library,
he completed with Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl the German text of
Saturn and Melancholy. The book’s cast metal type was reclaimed
for the war effort before it could be printed, but it was
eventually published in English in 1964 and has deeply influenced
understandings of the interrelations between humanities disciplines
ever since. After the war Klibansky came to McGill University,
where he enjoyed a brilliant career as a scholar of platonic
studies and the history of ideas, mainly in the works of Locke and
Hume. Over twelve chapters, each devoted to questions that were
dear to Klibansky during his long life, Georges Leroux presents
dialogues with his mentor selected from decades of conversation,
exploring themes including philosophical traditions, melancholy,
tolerance, peace, and the role of philosophy in international
relations. Scholarship, interlinked with the events of a turbulent
century, is at the centre of these fascinating conversations
between student and teacher. A richly illustrated autobiography
through dialogue, Raymond Klibanskyis a portrait of a heroic figure
in twentieth-century philosophy, a model for a younger generation
who can find in his scholarship an admirable example of virtue in
the service of peace.
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