Emmanuel Mounier
Emmanuel Mounier Emmanuel Mounier was born in Grenoble on 1 April 1905 and died in Châtenay-Malabry, near Paris, on 22 March 1950. He studied philosophy in Grenoble, where he was a student of Jacques Chevalier, and in Paris. In 1932 he founded, with Georges Izard and other collaborators, the journal Esprit, which he edited until his death and which became the main vehicle of personalism in France. In August 1941 the Vichy regime banned the journal; Mounier was arrested in 1942 and later released and acquitted. The journal resumed publication after the war. He died at 44, in the midst of intellectual activity, leaving a body of work aimed less at building a system than at guiding a movement of ideas and commitment. ...