Cours de Vladimir Jankélévitch à propos de l'Angoisse à la Sorbonne

In 1953, Vladimir Jankélévitch gave a philosophy lecture at the Sorbonne on the theme of anguish. The French philosopher and musicologist Vladimir Jankélévitch was born into a family of Russian intellectuals. His father, Samuel, a physician, was one of the first translators of Sigmund Freud in France; he also translated works by Hegel and Schelling and published articles in philosophy journals. The Jankélévitch family fled the anti-Semitic pogroms in their country and settled in France. In 1922, Vladimir entered the École Normale Supérieure, where he studied philosophy under Léon Brunschvicg (1869-1944). In 1923, he met Henri Bergson, with whom he would later correspond. Graduating first in the competitive examination for secondary school teachers (agrégation) in 1926, Jankélévitch left for the French Institute in Prague the following year. He taught there until 1932 and wrote a thesis on Schelling. Upon returning to France, he taught at the Lycée Malherbe (Caen), then at the Lycée du Parc (Lyon), and finally at the University of Toulouse and the University of Lille. Under the Vichy regime, he was stripped of both his French citizenship and his teaching position. In 1941, he joined the Resistance. His sister, Ida, married the poet Jean Cassou. During the Occupation, Vladimir Jankélevitch managed to bring his entire family to Toulouse, where Jean Cassou became a Commissioner of the Republic. He received support from the rector of the Catholic Institute of Toulouse, Monsignor Bruno de Solages, as well as from Freemasons, notably the family of Henri Caillavet. In October 1947, he resumed his professorship at the University of Lille. From 1951 to 1979, he held the chair of moral philosophy at the Sorbonne. He received an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels in 1965. Visit the Address Book website: https://www.lecarnetdadresse.com/