Xavier Tilliette

Xavier Tilliette (born July 23, 1921, Corbie) is a French philosopher, historian of philosophy and theologian, Somme. Former student of Jean Wahl and of Vladimir Jankélévitch, he is a member of the Society of Jesus (1938) and professor emeritus at the Catholic Institute of Paris (1969), at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome (1972), at the Lateran University and at the Centre Sèvres in Paris.[1]

Biography

Xavier Tilliette also taught philosophy at various universities as a "visiting professor" in France and abroad:[2] Lima, Santiago, Berlin, Bremen, Fribourg, Heidelberg, Hamburg, Munich, Bonn, Tübingen, Turin, Ferrara, Urbino, Rome, Macerata, Naples, Palermo. He speaks fluent English, Italian, German and Spanish, in addition to Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and he reads Portuguese and Danish.

Specialist of Schelling[3] and of Jaspers, he has been developing since the 1970s a "philosophical Christology" which he initiated. In the tradition of Schelling and of Maurice Blondel, he defends and illustrates the idea of a Christian philosophy[4] born from the Revelation.[5] He is also a specialist of Claudel,[6] of phenomenology (Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty) and of German idealism.[7]

Xavier Tilliette was twice winner of a prize from the French Academy. Several of his works were translated into English, Italian, German and Spanish.

Among his teachers, disciples or friends, along with Wahl and Jankélévitch,[8] are Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Henri de Lubac, Gaston Fessard, Hans Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Bouyer, Jean Daniélou, Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricœur, Gabriel Marcel, Ambroise-Marie Carré, Yves Congar, Michel de Certeau, Stanislas Fumet, Maurice de Gandillac, Paul Doncœur, Pierre Blet, Marcel Brion, Robert Bresson, Enrico Castelli, Luigi Pareyson, Michel Henry, Claude Bruaire, Jean Greisch, François Varillon, Albert Vanoye, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron.

He is a member of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici and of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften of Munich), and, since 2006, a corresponding member Accademia di estetica internazionale de Rapallo.

Xavier Tilliette is knight of the Légion d'honneur and of the OMRI.

Selected bibliography

Xavier Tilliette has written more than 2,000 essays, books and articles; his more comprehensive bibliography contains over 250 pages.

Books in French
With other authors
Written in Italian or in German
Essays published in the following reviews

References

  1. ↑ Text by Xavier Tilliette, "Dans mes propres affaires", from the review Conference, updated April 23, 2009
  2. ↑ Stancampiano Simone,Xavier Tilliette: Fede e sapere in dialogo, Giornale di filosofia.
  3. ↑ Tilliette Xavier is considered the best French specialist of Schelling. See CNRS.
  4. ↑ Le Christ des philosophes, Recension en ligne by Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron.
  5. ↑ « La cristologia filosofica di Xavier Tilliette » by Giuliano Sansonetti.
  6. ↑ Site des éd. du Cerf
  7. ↑ Recension en ligne Archived November 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. in Esprit & Vie.
  8. ↑ Emmanuel Levinas : les problèmes de la subjectivité by Xavier Tilliette

Further reading

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