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Gustave Thibon (French: [tibɔ̃]; 2 September 1903 – 19 January 2001) was a French philosopher.[1] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times by Édouard Delebecque, in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1968.[2]

Gustave Thibon
Thibon in 1982
Born	(1903-09-02)2 September 1903 Saint-Marcel d'Ardèche, France
Died	19 January 2001(2001-01-19) (aged 97) Saint-Marcel d'Ardèche, France
Era	Modern philosophy 20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy French philosophy
School	Christian philosophy
Language	French, Provençal, Latin
Influences Bloy Maritain
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Biography

Although essentially self-taught (he left school at the age of thirteen), Thibon was an avid reader – especially of poetry, in French, Provençal and Latin. He was very impressed by the First World War, which led him to hate patriotism and democracy.[3] The young Gustave Thibon travelled extensively, at first to London and Italy, and later to North Africa, where he served in the military, before returning to his native village at the age of 23. Under the influence of writers such as Léon Bloy and Jacques Maritain he converted to Catholicism. At the invitation of the latter, he started his literary career in the pages of the Revue Thomiste.

During World War II Thibon hosted the philosopher Simone Weil at his farm; he published S. Weil's work La Pesanteur et la Grâce (Gravity and Grace) in 1947.[4]

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Further reading

• Chabanis, Christian (1967). Gustave Thibon: Témoin de la Lumière. Paris: Beauchesne.
• Fraigneux, Maurice (1947). Introduction à Gustave Thibon. Paris: Pascal.
• Lemaire, Benoît (1980). L'Espérance sans Illusions. L'Espérance Chrétienne dans la Perspective de Gustave Thibon. Montréal: Éd. Paulines.
• Lemaire, Benoît (1984). "La Liberté au Centre du Conflit entre l'Esprit et la Vie." In: De la Philosophie comme Passion de la Liberté: Hommage à Alexis Klimov. Québec: Éditions du Beffroi, pp. 283–305.
• Massis, Henri (1967). Au Long d'une Vie. Le Message de Gustave Thibon. Paris: Plon.

External links

• Gustave Thibon

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