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PHILOSOPHER

Émile Chartier

1868 - 1951

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Émile-Auguste Chartier (French: [ʃaʁtje]; 3 March 1868 – 2 June 1951), commonly known as Alain ([alɛ̃]), was a French philosopher, journalist, essayist, pacifist, and teacher of philosophy. He adopted his pseudonym as the most banal he could find. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Chartier has received more than 132,782 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Émile Chartier is the 493rd most popular philosopher (down from 475th in 2019), the 1,529th most popular biography from France (down from 1,403rd in 2019) and the 69th most popular French Philosopher.

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  • 28

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  • 4.35

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Émile Chartier ranks 493 out of 1,081Before him are Annemarie Schimmel, Antiochus of Ascalon, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Priscian, Valentinus, and Peter Deunov. After him are Yan Hui, Theodorus the Atheist, Kenneth Waltz, Thomas Nagel, Axel Honneth, and Tom Regan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Émile Chartier ranks 54Before him are Alfred Weber, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, Gustav Noske, Pompeu Fabra, Franz Ritter von Epp, and Empress Dowager Longyu. After him are Jane Avril, Olga Knipper, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Paul Otlet, Henry Bergman, and Ernst Linder. Among people deceased in 1951, Émile Chartier ranks 35Before him are Robert J. Flaherty, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Empress Teimei, Andrei Platonov, Willem Mengelberg, and Élie Cartan. After him are Fritz Thyssen, Sadegh Hedayat, Soh Jaipil, Erich Naumann, Kijūrō Shidehara, and Nikolai Medtner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Chartier ranks 1,529 out of 6,011Before him are Mahaut, Countess of Artois (1269), Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (1401), Louis Marchand (1669), Fulk III, Count of Anjou (970), Theobald III, Count of Champagne (1179), and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (1400). After him are Jane Avril (1868), Antoine Barnave (1761), Aegidius (450), Armand de Vignerot du Plessis (1696), Guillaume de Beaujeu (1300), and Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Émile Chartier ranks 69Before him are Michel Serres (1930), Alain de Benoist (1943), Petrus Ramus (1515), Pierre Duhem (1861), William of Champeaux (1070), and Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754). After him are Victor Cousin (1792), Guillaume Budé (1467), Berengar of Tours (998), Georges Canguilhem (1904), Jacques Ellul (1912), and Étienne Balibar (1942).