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Leyvraz, Jean-Pierre


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Verfassungsreform und Philosophie
by Holzhey, Helmut and Jean-Pierre Leyvraz (eds)

ISBN 10: 3258031606
ISBN 13: 9783258031606
Date published: 1982

http://www.perso.ch/green/JPLeyvrazEnglish.htm
JEAN-PIERRE LEYVRAZ, professor of philosophy at the University of Geneva (retired) occasionally still teaches courses at the University.  J.P. Leyvraz, a formidable lefthander at fencing, finds a certain balance by practicing this sport with his intellectual activities. His reportage treats news of local interest.

http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D47719.php
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Leyvraz, Jean-Pierre

 9.9.1925 Genf, kath., von Rivaz. Sohn des René (-> 2) und der Alba geb. Dami. ∞ 
 1) 1948 Ilse Waltz ( 1992), 2) 1996 Anneli Muser. 
1930-44 Besuch der Schulen in Genf, 
1944-47 Stud. der franz. Literatur in Genf, 
1947-48 Lektor für franz. Literatur in Glasgow, 
1948-49 in Newcastle. 
1960 Promotion in Philosophie an der Univ. Genf. 
1964-66 Assistenzprof. in den USA, 
1967-69 Assistenz, 
1970-77 Habilitation und Assistenzprof. für Philosophie an der Univ. Genf, 
1977-78 Gastprof. am Vassar College (New York), ab 1979 Lehrbeauftragter und Titularprof. der Univ. Genf bis zur Emeritierung 1990. 
L.' philosoph. 
Betrachtungen zur Metaphysik, Ethik, Logik und Sprachphilosophie setzen sich mit der franz. Phänomenologie und der Philosophie von Karl Jaspers, später auch mit Ludwig Wittgenstein auseinander. 
1973-75 Präs. der Schweiz. Philosoph. Gesellschaft.

Werke
-Le temple et le dieu: Essai d'une philosophie de la relation, 1960 
-Phénoménologie de l'expérience, 1970 

Autorin/Autor: Nicolas Füzesi

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comments: the above may indicate that PE was for Habillitation
question: was Ge. Steiner at Genf at the time?  Who chaired the dept when this local Genf was promoted?  Who supervised this work

jalons:  (pick any page at random and apply something like a Frankfurt or Searle "bullsh*t" evaluation/assessment to the possible propositional content any large paragraph then assess as neo-Jaspers "thinking" and "symbols" then lastly as possibly ironical or poetical as in Kierkegaard or Nietzsche;  compare to Cantos of Ezra Pound on economic notions and econ theory

   pg 138 he chooses to throw in Arendt on Eichmann - placing eichmann in the very short index of proper names in a work entitled "P of E" - but very topical and controversial still in 1969-70 

   pg 95  circadian "biological clock"  - a commonplace by 1970

   pg 76 l'acte d'unité   compare  J-P Sartre borrowings from Heidegger "Kant u. P M" 1928 - cp passages in prev "niveau" pp 34-52

COMPARISON: Antonio Rappo at National U Singapore, Dept of Poli Sci and allacademic.com available papers as bullsh*t, sophistry or obscurantist babble

task: attempt to create a logical précis of the book as argumentation, explication, exemplification, protest, challenge or otherwise quasi-coherent tract.

Clue that habilitation schrift was in fact based on lectures: the short polemical passages peppering the text

Academe: find someone who remembers how he came to be a visiting prof at Vassar College in '77 ( part of a wider sociological issue on European obscurantists at American colleges )

Economic: calculate the cost to libraries world-wide acquiring a Martinus Nijhoff philosophy text versus the cost of the technology of micro-film then available (1970)  NOTE: European practices of publishing Hab'schriften versus American/British/Canadian practices 1945-2010
Note: Jaspers could after '51 (?) be considered a "Swiss" philosopher

Comparable parochial academic careers of philosophers: Quebec post "quiet revolution" to present day

Kevin Mulligan in Genf as possible resource:  http://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/enseignants/km/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mulligan