Raymond Ruyer

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Raymond Ruyer (b. 1902 in Plainfaing, Vosges - d. 1987 Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle) was a French philosopher in the late 20th century. Author of many important works, he covered several topics such as the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of informatics, the philosophy of value and others. His most popular book is The Gnosis of Princeton in which he presents his own philosophic views under the pretence that he was representing the views of an imaginary group of American scientists. He developed a theory of consciousness of all living matter, named panpsychism, which was a major influence on philosophers such as Simondon, Deleuze and Guattari.

Works

(in French unless noted)

Monographs
  • La conscience et le corps, Paris: Alcan, 1937.
  • Éléments de psycho-biologie, Paris: PUF, 1946.
  • Le Monde des valeurs: études systématiques, Paris: Aubier, 1947.
  • L'Utopie et les utopies, Paris: PUF, 1950,
  • Néo-finalisme, Paris: PUF, 1952; new ed., 2012.
    • Neofinalism, intro. Mark B.N. Hansen, trans. Alyosha Ruyer, University of Minnesota Press, 2016. (English)
  • La cybernétique et l'origine de l'information, Paris: Flammarion, 1954, ARG.
  • La genèse des formes vivantes, Paris: Flammarion, 1958.
  • La philosophie de la valeur, Paris: Armand Colin, 1959.
  • Paradoxes de la conscience et limites de l'automatisme, Paris: Albin Michel, 1960.
  • L'animal, l'homme, la fonction symbolique, Paris: Gallimard, 1964, ARG.
  • Éloge de la société de consommation, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1969,
  • Dieu des religions, Dieu de la science, Paris: Flammarion, 1970.
  • Les nuisances idéologiques, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1972.
  • La gnose de Princeton, Paris: Fayard, 1974.
  • Les nourritures psychiques. La politique du bonheur, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1975.
  • Les cent prochains siècles, Paris: Fayard, 1977.
  • Homère au féminin ou La jeune femme auteur de l'Odyssée, Paris: Copernic, 1977.
  • L'art d'être toujours content. Introduction à la vie gnostique, Paris: Fayard, 1978.
  • Le sceptique résolu, Paris: Robert Laffont, 1979.
  • Souvenirs -1- Ma famille alsacienne et ma vallée vosgienne, Paris: Vent d'Est, 1985.
  • [L’embryogenèse du monde et le Dieu silencieux], 1983. Unpublished manuscript.
Articles
  • "L’action à distance d’après la science contemporaine", Revue Métapsychique 16 (1951), pp 183-196.
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