Édouard Schuré wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists Édouard Schuré as French philosopher, writer, poet, playwright, music critic, Anthroposophist and Theosophist (1841–1929).
Édouard Schuré was born at Strasbourg in 1841. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at University of Strasbourg.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
The honours record reads: Officer of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Édouard Schuré died in 1929, aged 88. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
