In the history of thought, Pierre Poiret is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Pierre Poiret as French philosopher and mystic.
Pierre Poiret was born at Metz in 1646. His recorded nationality is France.
This was the century in which philosophy separated itself from theology and began to ask what could be known with certainty.
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.
Pierre Poiret died in 1719, aged 73. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
