In the history of thought, Émile Littré is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Émile Littré as French lexicographer and philosopher (1801-1881).
Émile Littré was born at former 11th arrondissement of Paris in 1801. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand and Paris Medical Faculty.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy, positivism and history.
His principal work is Dictionnaire de la langue française. The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Émile Littré died in 1881, aged 80. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Notable work: Dictionnaire de la langue française
- Fields: philosophy, positivism and history
