Victor Egger
Victor Émile Egger (14 February 1848 – 19 February 1909) was a French philosopher of the eclectic school, psychologist and epistemologist.
Biography
Victor Egger was born in Paris, the eldest son of Greek literature professor Émile Egger and the grandson of the Hellenist Félix Désiré Dehèque.
He entered the École normale supérieure in 1867, graduated first in the agrégation of philosophy in 1872 and obtained a doctorate of letters in 1881. He was a student of Félix Ravaisson, Albert Lemoine and Charles Renouvier. After having been a professor of philosophy at the Lycée in Bastia (1871) and in Angers (1872–1877), then a lecturer at the Faculty of Bordeaux, and finally a professor at the Faculty of Nancy from 1882. He taught philosophy as a lecturer in 1893 and then as an assistant professor in 1902 at the Faculty of Letters in Paris. He was notably the professor of the young Marcel Proust at the Sorbonne between 1893 and 1895 and the colleague of Henri Bergson, Ernest Renan and Paul Janet. In 1904, he became a professor of philosophy and psychology at this university.[1]
He collaborated with different journals such as the Revue des Deux Mondes, the Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger, and the Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des Sciences Médicales.
In 1975, the American psychiatrist Raymond Moody described the first recorded "near-death experiences" (NDE), without referring to an expression already proposed by Victor Egger in 1896 in Le moi des mourants.
Works
- Du Rôle Moral de l'Enseignement Philosophique (1874)
- La Physiologie Cérébrale et la Psychologie (1877)
- Le Principe Psychologique de la Certitude Scientifique (1877)
- La Naissance des Habitudes (1880)
- La Parole Intérieure: Essai de Psychologie Descriptive (1881)
- Science Ancienne et Science Moderne (1890)
Selected publications
- "Le Moi des Mourants", Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger,, Vol. XLI (1896), pp. 26–38.
Notes
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- Roni, Riccardo (2016). Victor Egger e Henri Bergson: Alle Origini del Flusso di Coscienza. Pisa: Edizioni ETS.
- Roni, Riccardo (2020). Victor Egger (1848-1909): La Filosofia Spiritualista in Francia tra Ottocento e Novecento. Milano: Mimesis.
External links
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- ↑ Charle, Christophe (1985). "Egger (Victor, Emile)", Publications de l'Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 68–69.
