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• Call and Vocation (l'appel)

  Mounier's structural-vertical of the personal life across Personalism. The call (l'appel) is the structure through which freedom, value, vocation, and prophetic action all operate: freedom is "always something called forth" (Ch V, p. 60);…

• Economy of Donation

  Mounier's name in Personalism Ch II p. 22 for the anti-economic economy of the person: "The vitality of the personal impulse is to be found neither in self-defence (as in petty-bourgeois individualism) nor in life-and-death struggle (as wi…

• Emmanuel Mounier

  French Catholic philosopher (1905–1950), founder and editor of the journal Esprit (1932– ), and central figure of the mid-twentieth-century personalist movement. Author of Manifeste au service du personnalisme (Aubier, 1936), Traité du car…

• Jacques Maritain

  French Catholic philosopher (1882–1973), associated with the Thomist revival and the Catholic-personalist movement. Author of Humanisme intégral (1936) / True Humanism — the cardinal Catholic-personalist political-philosophical statement o…

• Karl Jaspers

  German-Swiss psychiatrist and existentialist philosopher (1883–1969), author of Philosophie (three vols., 1932), Existenzphilosophie (1938), Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte (1949), and many other works. With Heidegger, one of the two…

• Maurice Nédoncelle

  French Catholic philosopher (1905–1976), close to the Mounier / Esprit circle and a major contributor to the personalist literature. Author of La Réciprocité des consciences (Aubier, 1942), La Personne humaine et la nature (PUF), and many…

• Nicolas Berdyaev

  Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher (1874–1948), exiled to France (1922) after expulsion from the Soviet Union; one of the central figures of the early-20th-century existentialist-personalist line. Author of The Meaning of the Creative…

• Personalism Emmanuel Mounier, 1952

  Author: Emmanuel Mounier · Year: 1950 (French; English trans. Mairet 1952) · Type: book

• Personalism

  Mounier's synthesizing term for the mid-twentieth-century philosophical-political movement that affirms the person (la personne) — neither a thing nor a definition but "the one reality that we know, and that we are at the same time fashion…

• Personalization / Depersonalization

  Mounier's two-vector account of universal history in Personalism Ch I: history is constituted by the tension between personalization (the slow emergence of centres of indeterminacy out of matter's entropic monotony) and depersonalization (…

• Tragic Optimism

  Mounier's signature coinage at Personalism Ch I p. 16: "Between the impatient optimism of liberal and revolutionary illusion, and the impatient pessimism of the fascists, the right road for man is in this tragic optimism, where he finds hi…