Michel Seymour wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists Michel Seymour as Canadian philosopher.
Michel Seymour was born in 1954. His recorded nationality is Canada. He studied at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.
Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
That the work was done from Canada matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Michel Seymour is still working, and the final assessment of the contribution has not been made.
