Marcel Paquet

Marcel Paquet
Marcel Paquet
Born(1947-02-21)21 February 1947
Jumet, near Charleroi, Belgium
Died22 November 2014(2014-11-22) (aged 67)
Poznań, Poland
NationalityBelgian
ChildrenRaphael Paquet 1976

Alexandre Paquet 1981

Hadrien Paquet 1984
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Main interests
Ontology • Political Philosophy
Esthetics
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Marcel Paquet (21 February 1947 – 22 November 2014) was a Belgian philosopher. The most important influences on his thought were Spinoza, Kant, Hegel,[1] Nietzsche,[2] Heidegger and Michel Foucault.[3]

Paquet rejected all forms of Idealism in favor of the sensory world. Insofar as he considered human beings to be no more than fragments of nature, thought was considered by him to be the result of cerebral processes which operate largely beneath the level of consciousness. He insisted on the pre-eminence of the body and the fact that, for this reasons, consciousness observes the results of thought, but does not bring them into being.

Inspired by Nietzsche's notion of Eternal Recurrence - which Paquet treated not as a doctrine but an operational principle, that is as a means of disentangling ourselves from secondary aspects of our identity (determined by cultural, religious and moral factors) in order to recover our primary nature - he considered a return to the body as the sole ethical value.[4]

He developed this Spinozan theme in a number of different directions: ontology (L'enjeu de la philosophie, Platon: l’éternel retour de la liberté), political philosophy (Nous autres Européens, Le Fascisme Blanc) and esthetics, the latter in particular in relation to painting which he defined as the art of rendering the sensory visible.[5] He is the author of a large number of essays consecrated to visual artists whom he knew personally: Jean Dubuffet, Alexander Calder, André Masson, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Fernando Botero, Sophia Vari, Corneille (one of the six founders of the Cobra movement),[6] Bram Bogart, Anna Wilczynska-Wilska, Amann.

He is also the author of several philosophical novels, namely Renaissance sécondaire, Merde à Jésus, L’affaire Socrate and Marie et les Jean.[7]

He died in Poznań, Poland, on 22 November 2014.[8]

  1. ^ "Agenda - Conférence : Spinoza, Philosophe hollandais". www.pharefm.be.
  2. ^ Gerald Alvoet, Nietzsche et l'Europe: "Nous autres, bons Européens", ed. L'Harmattan, 2006, p. 100, ISBN 2296019285
    - Bellefroid et al, Joaquim Vital - esquisses pour un portrait, éditions de la Différence, 2011, p. 96, ISBN 978-2729119256
  3. ^ Politique de théâtre, morale sartrienne et gracieuse dialectique, Nous autres Européens, op.cit.
  4. ^ Platon, l’éternel retour de la liberté, op.cit.
  5. ^ Rouge Absolu, op.cit.
  6. ^ DBNL. "Ons Erfdeel. Jaargang 32 · dbnl". DBNL.
  7. ^ "Paquet - Éditions de la Différence". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
  8. ^ [1]
    - Colette Lambriche, "LETTRE DÉCEMBRE 2014 - IN MEMORIAM MARCEL PAQUET", La lettre des Éditions de La Différence, December 2014 Archived 2014-12-13 at the Wayback Machine