Louis Dupré (philosopher)

Louis Karel Dupré (16 April 1925 – 11 January 2022) was a Belgian Catholic phenomenologist and religious philosopher. He was the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor in Yale University's religious studies department from 1973 to 1998, after which he became Professor Emeritus.[1] His work generally attempts to tie the modern age more closely to medieval and classical thought, finding precursors to Enlightenment and Reformation events that were naively viewed as revolutions. Dupré was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

For other uses, see Louis Dupré (disambiguation).

Biography

Louis Dupré was born at the village of Veerle, a province of Antwerp, in Belgium, on 16 April 1925.[2] He graduated at the Catholic University of Louvain as a doctor in philosophy in 1952 with a dissertation on Karl Marx. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1958 and became a professor at Georgetown University. Known as a Marx specialist then with three studies on Marx, he became a professor in religious philosophy at Yale University in 1973. Afterwards he became also known as a Kierkegaard specialist. Marx's and Kierkegaard's criticisms of modernity and the cultural fragmentation inherent in it became the kernel of his later works. The phenomenon of religion in a secularised world is the main subject in "The Other Dimension", "Transcendent Selfhood" and "A Dubious Heritage", but also in his works on Christian mysticism. Eventually, the religious philosopher poses the large cultural question about the relation between (Christian) religion and the birth of modern western culture: "Passage to Modernity" (14th–16th century), "The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture" and "The Quest of the Absolute. Birth and Decline of European Romanticism".[3] In 2010, Dupré left the United States and lived in Kortrijk, Belgium thereafter. Dupré died in Kortrijk, Belgium, on 11 January 2022, at the age of 96.[4]

References
  1. "Louis Dupre | Religious Studies".
  2. Levesque, Paul J. (January 2005). "Dupré, Louis Karel". In Shook, John R. (ed.). Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Vol. 2. Bristol: Thoemmes (published 2005). pp. 683–685. ISBN 9781843710370.
  3. "Louis Dupré Distnguished Philosopher of Religion".
  4. "Religiefilosoof Louis Dupré overleden" (in Dutch).


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