Paul Petit (writer)
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Paul Petit (2 May 1893 – 24 August 1944) was a French writer, sociologist, diplomat and French Resistance worker.
Arrested on 7 February 1942, Paul Petit was deported to the prison Saarbrucken 9 July 1942. Sentenced to death on 16 October 1943, by 2 e Senate Volksgerichtshof, along with his co-accused Martin Marietta and Raymond Burgard, he was beheaded at the Cologne prison (Germany) on 24 August 1944.
Translations of Kierkegaard
[edit]Petit produced French translations of the work of two works of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard: the Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (French: Post-scriptum aux Miettes philosophiques), published in 1941; and Philosophical Fragments (French: Les mietes philosophiques), published posthumously in 1947.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Stewart, Jon (2007). "France: Kierkegaard as a Forerunner of Existentialism and Poststructuralism". In Stewart, Jon (ed.). Kierkegaard's International Reception I: Northern and Western Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate. p. 429. ISBN 9780754664963.