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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Denis de Rougemont ranks 770 out of 1,267.

Especially memorable are Penser avec les mains (Thinking with one’s hands), (1936), Journal d’un intellectual au chômage (Diary of all intellectual on the dole) (1937) et L’amour et  l’Occident (Love and the Western World) (1939). because the latter understood that culture was a real agent of change!

Of course, the Europe of Brussels has never denied that its grand projects need a soul and that this soul must grow out of European culture in all its diversity, including that of the small societal and political entities.

In a speech made in Washington in 1952, Jean Monnet stated, “We do not make coalitions of states, we unite men.” This nice formula in truth corresponds almost exactly to Denis de Rougemont’s agenda, while the work of Jean Monnet would find its expression essentially in the interstate negotiations on predominantly economic issues.

There he became highly active in the movement for European federalism, but he was critical of the concepts of a European Union as integration of existing States; He remained loyal to the position he set out in the mid-1930s. The first thing to note is that he did not get involved in Swiss politics concerning European affairs.

(1) De Rougemont was one of the writers of the 1931 Manifesto of the New Order with its emphasis on developing a new cultural base for society.

For de Rougemont, revolutionaries attempting to seize power, even from the most repressive regimes, invariably fall into the power structures they hoped to eliminate.

First of all, at the behest of another Swiss from Neuchâtel, the Reverend Roland de Pury, he accepted to be literary editor for the Je Sers Editions, a publishing house which specialized in texts by Protestant authors. Before him are F. H. Bradley, Kitaro Nishida, Alcidamas, William Paley, Zhang Zai, and Hermarchus. Il est mort le 6 décembre 1985, à Genève.

In Geneva in 1925, Robert de Traz, who published the Revue de Genève, would be among the first to commission texts by Denis de Rougemont.

His literature degree in hand, Denis de Rougemont plunged into Parisian intellectual life. One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitarianism from a Christian point of view.

Too little, if one seeks to confine his spiritual horizons to the frontiers of the Nation-State; too large if one tries to make them the locus of this direct contact with the flesh and with the earth which is necessary to Man”.

He put an emphasis on culture stressing a common European civilization but with great respect for the contributions of different European regions.

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