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Henry Corbin (1903-1978) - Stella Corbin (1910-2003)

Henry Corbin (1903-1978)

Henry Corbin dans sa bibliothèque en 1973.

Orientalist and philosopher, Corbin is one of the most prominent thinkers of the twentieth century. Discipleof Etienne Gilson and Louis Massignon, whom he succeeded in the chair for the Study of Islam at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne, he was also one of the fundamental pillars - with CG Jung and M. Eliade, among others - of the Eranos Circle from 1949 to 1977, Director of the department of iranology of the Franco-Iranian Institute of Tehran from 1946 to 1970, professor for more than thirty years at the University of Tehran and a founding member of the University of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Henry Corbin opened the eyes of the West, about the existence of a completely unknown world: the deep spirituality of the great mystics and Shiite philosophy developed in East Muslim world, particularly in Iran, after the death Averroes. His work centered on the Islamic knowledge and spirituality, but developed in the context of the three monotheistic religions, has a considerable number of studies on rituals, as well as translations and editions of ancient unpublished Arabic and Persian texts, that he recovered himself patiently in the libraries of Turkey and Iran.

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  • Ziad Elmarsafy, Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet
    16 May 2024 0
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    L'ouvrage "Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought" analyse le dévouement de trois spécialistes français de l'Islam - un catholique, un protestant et un athée maoïste - pour les aspects ésotériques de l'Islam. Massignon, Corbin et Jambet y trouvent des réponses à des problématiques personnelles et intellectuelles profondes. Ce livre explore l'influence majeure de l'islam ésotérique sur la pensée française des XXe et XXIe siècles.
  • Roberto Revello, Uno sguardo che salva – Weil, Florenskij, Corbin
    13 May 2024 0
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    Roberto Revello, dans "Uno sguardo che salva", explore comment des idées philosophiques et éthiques modifient notre perception et notre approche de la vie. S. Weil, P.A. Florenskij, H. Corbin montrent que philosopher c'est apprendre à voir autrement, permettant une lecture laïque et enrichie de leur héritage éthique et spirituel.
  • The Correspondence Between Mircea Eliade and Henry Corbin (1950-1981)
    24 February 2024 0
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    The Correspondence Between Mircea Eliade and Henry Corbin (1950-1981), introduced by Matei Iagher, edited by Matei Iagher and Florent Serina, translated from the French by Matei Iagher.
  • The Invisible Teacher and His Disciples: C.G. Jung’s and Henry Corbin’s Approaches To “The Green One”
    31 January 2023 1
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    Corbin met Jung at Ascona in 1949. In 1953 he published a long, insightful review of Jung’s Answer to Job. Yet, for all the respect, if not devotion, that Corbin expressed to Jung, and for all the sympathy that Jung showed Corbin, their relationship was never an easy one. Is there any textual ground that might allow us to see deeper, and more insightfully, into their differences and commonalities? Daniela Boccassini proposes to focus on the figure of al-Khidr, “the green and greening one,” as invisible teacher, as the awakener of both soul and text to their forgotten identity: a basic gnostic theme. A comparative reading of Jung’s and Corbin’s approaches to this figure may help us find their meeting place, at the confluence of the two seas.
  • Armelle Dutruc, Des profondeurs de l’être – Marie-Magdeleine Davy
    14 March 2022 0
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    Philosophe, écrivaine et maître de recherche au CNRS. Elle croise N. Berdiaev, L. Massignon, G. Marcel, R. Godel, H. Corbin, S. Weil, H. Le Saux, et tant d’autres.
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