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+ | [[Image:Souriau_Etienne_Les_Differents_modes_d_existence_2009.jpg|thumb|258px|''Les Différents modes d'existence'', 1943/2009, [http://ge.tt/api/1/files/7p16eLC2/0/blob?download PDF], [http://mega.co.nz/#!4RpAiDRZ!SbdzLfJFiCIZ4kaVuEirM4G0SrHmfHD8xKZOnsMeHNE PDF].]] | ||
* ''Pensée vivante et perfection formelle'', Paris: Hachette, 1925, xv+308 pp; new ed., Paris: PUF, 1952. Principal doctoral thesis. Review: [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/phlou_0776-555x_1927_num_29_13_2463_t1_0110_0000_2 Pialat] (1927). | * ''Pensée vivante et perfection formelle'', Paris: Hachette, 1925, xv+308 pp; new ed., Paris: PUF, 1952. Principal doctoral thesis. Review: [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/phlou_0776-555x_1927_num_29_13_2463_t1_0110_0000_2 Pialat] (1927). | ||
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** ''I differenti modi di esistenza'', trans. F. Domenicali, forthcoming 2015. {{it}} | ** ''I differenti modi di esistenza'', trans. F. Domenicali, forthcoming 2015. {{it}} | ||
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* [[Gilbert Simondon]] | * [[Gilbert Simondon]] | ||
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Revision as of 11:30, 16 March 2015
Étienne Souriau (26 April 1892, Lille – 19 November 1979, Paris) was a French philosopher, best known for his work in aesthetics and filmology.
Souriau served as professor at the University of Aix-en-Provence (1925-29), then in Lyon, and from 1941 at Sorbonne. In 1948, together with Charles Lalo and Raymond Bayer he founded the journal Revue d'esthétique. [1]
The most extensive English-language introductions to Souriau's work to date are Vitry Maubrey 1985 and Latour 2011.
Works
(in French unless noted)
Books
- Pensée vivante et perfection formelle, Paris: Hachette, 1925, xv+308 pp; new ed., Paris: PUF, 1952. Principal doctoral thesis. Review: Pialat (1927).
- L'Abstraction sentimentale, Paris: Hachette, 1925, v+144 pp; new ed., Paris: PUF, 1951. Secondary doctoral thesis. Review: Pialat (1927).
- L'Avenir de l'esthétique: essai sur l'objet d'une science naissante, Paris: Alcan, 1929, viii+403 pp. Review: Couissin (1929).
- [The Future of Aesthetics], trans. Celesta Pirwitz, 1976. Unpublished typescript. [2] (English)
- partial trans. in I percorsi delle forme, Milan: B. Mondadori, 1997, pp 156-165 & 388-394. (Italian)
- Avoir une âme, Paris: Belles-Lettres, 1939.
- L'Instauration philosophique, Paris: PUF, 1939.
- Les Différents modes d'existence, Paris: Alcan, 1943, 166 pp; new ed., intro. Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour, Paris: PUF, 2009, 220 pp. [3] Reviews: Sangiolo (1945), Keck (2009).
- I differenti modi di esistenza, trans. F. Domenicali, forthcoming 2015. (Italian)
- La Correspondance des arts, Paris: Flammarion, 1947; new ed. as La Correspondance des arts, science de l'homme: éléments d'esthétique comparée, Paris: Flammarion, 1969, 320 pp.
- Etjen Surio, Odnos među umetnostima: problemi uporedne estetike, trans. Miloš Jovanović, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1958, 296 pp. (Croatian)
- La correspondencia de las artes: elementos de estética comparada, trans. Margarita Nelken, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1965, 353 pp. (Spanish)
- La corrispondenza delle arti, trans. Raffaele Milani, Firenze: Alinea, 1988. (Italian)
- Les Deux cent mille situations dramatiques, Paris: Flammarion, 1950.
- Etjen Surio, Dvesta hiljada dramskih situacija, trans. Mira Vuković, Belgrade: Nolit, 1982. (Serbian)
- As duzentas mil situações dramáticas, São Paulo: Atica, 1993, 230 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- with Charles Lalo and P. Le Goupils, Esthétique industrielle, Paris: PUF, 1952, 190 pp. Consists of articles from Revue d'esthétique, Jul-Dec 1951.
- editor, L'Univers filmique, Paris: Flammarion, 1953, 210 pp. Anthology of texts from the filmology movement.
- L'Ombre de dieu, Paris: PUF, 1955. Commentary: Declève (1988).
- Le Sens artistique des animaux, Paris: Hachette, 1965.
- Il senso artistico degli animali, trans. M. Porro, Milan: Mimesis, 2002. (Italian)
- La Poésie française et la peinture, London: Athlone Press, 1966, 52 pp. Lecture.
- Clefs pour l'esthétique, Paris: Seghers, 1970.
- La couronne d'herbes. Esquisse d'une morale sur des bases purement esthétiques, Paris: U.G.E., 1975.
- L'Avenir de la philosophie, Paris: Gallimard, 1982.
- with Anne Souriau, Vocabulaire d'esthétique, Paris: PUF, 1990, 1408 pp; Paris: PUF, 2004. Review: Gravel (1991), Pascale (1993).
- Encyklopedie estetiky, Prague: Victoria Publishing, 1994, 939 pp. (Czech)
- Diccionario Akal de estética, trans. Ismael Grasa Adé, et al., rev. Fernando Castro Flórez, Madrid: Akal, 1998, 1087 pp. [4] (Spanish)
- Courses at Sorbonne
- Les Grands problèmes de l’esthétique théâtrale, Paris: C.D.U., 1956, 101 pp.
- Estetica del teatro, trans. & ed. C. Cappelletto, Milan: Mimesis, 2015. (Italian)
- Les Structures de l’œuvre d’art, Paris: C.D.U., 1956, 109 pp.
- La Condition humaine vue à travers l’art, Paris: C.D.U., 1962?.
- L'Évolution du besoin esthétique à travers les ages [1960-61], Paris: C.D.U., 1964, 107 pp.
- Les Catégories esthétiques, Paris: C.D.U., 1966, 107 pp.
- Les structures maîtresses de l'oeuvre d'art, Paris: C.D.U., 1966, 109 pp.
Selected articles
- "L'Algorithme musical", Revue philosophique 104 (Jul-Dec 1927), pp 204-241.
- with M. Bourgarel and Maurice Blondel, "L'instant", Les Études philosophiques 2:2/3 (Nov 1928), pp 96-102.
- "Esthétique musicale", Revue philosophique 111 (Jan-Jun 1931), pp 454-459.
- "Art et verité", Revue philosophique 115 (Jan-Jun 1933), pp 161-201.
- "Le Hasard, les equilibres cosmiques et les perfections singulières", Les études Philosophiques 15:1 (1941), pp 13-15.
- "Chance, Cosmic Equilibriums and Singular Perfections", trans. Kris Pender, n.d. (English)
- "Étude critique: Les fonctions psychologiques et les œuvres d’après I. Meyerson", Journal de Psychologie Normale et Psychologique 41 (1948), pp 480-481.
- "La culture et le respect des cultures", Les Etudes philosophiques 3:2 (1948), pp 226-230.
- "Le cube et le sphere", in Architecture et dramaturgie, ed. A. Villiers, Paris: Flammarion, 1950, pp 63-83. An address delivered at Sorbonne on 9 Dec 1948, before the Center of Philosophical and Technical Studies in the Theatre.
- "The Cube and the Sphere", trans. Claude P. Viens, Educational Theatre Journal 4:1 (Mar 1952), pp 11-18. [5] (English)
- "Time in the Plastic Arts", trans. Marjorie Kupersmith, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 7:4 (Jun 1949), pp 294-307; repr. in Reflections on Art: A Source Book of Writings by Artists, Critics and Philosophers, ed. Susanne K. Langer, John Hopkins Press, 1958, pp 122-141. (English)
- "La structure de l'univers filmique", Revue internationale de filmologie 2:7-8 (1951), pp 231-240.
- "Die Struktur des filmischen Universums und das Vokabular der Filmologie", trans. Frank Kessler, montage/av 6:2 (1997), pp 140-157. [6] (German)
- "Art et Philosophie", Revue philosophique 144 (1954), pp 1-21.
- "Charles Lalo (1887-1953)", Revue philosophique 144 (1954), pp 171-173.
- "A General Methodology for the Scientific Study of Aesthetic Appreciation", trans. Van Meter Ames, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 14:1 (Sep 1955), pp 1-18. [7] (English)
- "Culture et cinéma", Enfance 10:3 (1957), pp 373-375.
- "La part de la contemplation", Revue philosophique 151 (1961), pp 179-200.
- "L'esthétique et l'artiste contemporain", Leonardo 1:1 (Jan 1968), pp 63-68.
- "L'intervention des machines dans la création artistique", in Souriau, et al., Approches de l'art. Mélanges d'esthétique et de sciences de l'art offerts à Arsène Soreil, Brussels: La Renaissance du Livre, 1973.
- "Du génie en philosophie", Revue philosophique 165:2 (Apr-Jun 1975), pp 129-146.
- more
Bibliography
Literature
- Mikel Dufrenne, Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique, Paris: PUF, 1953.
- Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience, trans. Edward S. Casey, et al., Northwestern University Press, 1973. (English)
- Henry Corbin, Alone With the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi [1958], Princeton University Press, 1969; 1997, pp 290-293. (English) Compares Qur'anic ta'wil (esoteric interpretation) to Souriau's account of transition from virtual existence to supraexistence.
- Ngô-Tiêng-Hiên, "Art et vérité dans l'œuvre d'Étienne Souriau", Revue Philosophique de Louvain 69:1 (1971), pp 73-91.
- Luce de Vitry Maubrey, La pensée cosmologique d'Étienne Souriau, Paris: Klinsieck, 1974.
- Cecile Cloutier, L'Esthétique d'Etienne Souriau, McMaster University, 1977. Thesis.
- Revue d'esthétique 3-4: "L'Art instaurateur", Paris: U.G.E., 1980. Special issue on Souriau.
- Christian Metz, "Sur un profil d'Etienne Souriau," Revue d'esthétique 3-4 (1980), pp 143-160.
- "A Profile of Etienne Souriau", On Film 12 (Spring 1984), pp 5-8. (English)
- Luce de Vitry Maubrey, "Etienne Souriau's Cosmic Vision and the Coming-Into-Its-Own of the Platonic Other", Man and World 18:3 (1985), pp 325-345. (English)
- Bruno Latour, "Sur un livre d'Etienne Souriau Les Différents modes d'existence", n.d.
- "Reflections on Etienne Souriau's Les différents modes d'existence", trans. Stephen Muecke, in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, eds. Bryant, Srnicek and Harman, Melbourne: re.press, 2011, pp 304-333. [8] (English)
- Leonard Lawlor, "A Note on the Relation between Étienne Souriau's L'Instauration philosophique and Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?", Deleuze Studies 5:3 (2011), pp 400-406. [9] (English)
- more
See also
Links
- Souriau at French Wikipedia
- Bruno Latour & Antoine Hennion: L'’Ange de l’œuvre. Étienne Souriau, from Aesthetics to an Ontology of Uncertain Beings, video from the lecture given at IKKM Weimar, Jun 2013. (English)
- Short biography, Trivium. (French)