biography
pronunciation:
[mareetĩ]
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| lived:
| (1882–1973)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and diplomat, born in Paris, France, the godson of Léon Bloys. He studied in Paris and Heidelberg, and converted to Catholicism in 1906. He renounced his collaboration with l'Action Française following its condemnation by the pope in 1927. He was professor at the Institut Catholique in Paris (1914–40), and taught mainly in North America, at Toronto, Columbia, Chicago, and Princeton universities (1948–60). French ambassador at the Vatican (1945–8), he later became a strong opponent of the Vatican Council and the neo-Modernist movement. His works include Art et scolastique (1920, Art and Scholasticism), Saint Thomas (1921), Frontière de la Poésie (1926), Les Degrés du savoir (1932, The Degree of Knowledge), Humanisme intégral (1936), Christianisme et Démocratie (1948, Christianity and Democracy), and La Philosophie morale (1960, Moral Philosophy). |
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