In the history of thought, Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire as French philosopher, journalist, statesman, and possible illegitimate son of Napoleon I of France (1805-1895).
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire was born at former 1st arrondissement of Paris in 1805. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand and Bourbon college.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
His academic posts were held at Collège de France.
The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1860).
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire died in 1895, aged 90. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1860
- Held posts at Collège de France
