Jules de Gaultier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French philosopher
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Jules de Gaultier
- Jules de Gaultier (born in 1858 in Paris, died in 1942 in Boulogne-sur-Mer), born Jules Achille de Gaultier de Laguionie, was a French philosopher and essayist.
- He was a contributor to Mercure de France and one of the chief advocates of "nietzscheism" in vogue in the literary circles of the day.
- He was known especially for his theory of "bovarysme" (the name taken from Flaubert's novel), by which he meant the continual need of humans to invent themselves, to lie to themselves.
- His books include De Kant à Nietzsche (1900) and Le Bovarysme, essai sur le pouvoir d'imaginer (1902).
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