Georges Palante

Georges Toussaint Léon Palante
Palante in 1914
Born	20 November 1862 Pas-de-Calais, France
Died	5 August 1925(1925-08-05) (aged 62) Saint-Brieuc, France
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Nietzscheanism Precursor to existentialism
Main interests	Politics, ethics
Notable ideas	Individualism

Georges Toussaint Léon Palante (20 November 1862 – 5 August 1925) was a French philosopher and sociologist.

Palante advocated aristocratic individualist ideas similar to Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer.^[1] He was opposed to Émile Durkheim's holism, promoting methodological individualism instead.