Life and works
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 15 July 1883 | Born in Saint-Martin-de-Villeréal, in the Lot-et-Garonne, France.[1] |
| 1920s ≈ | Teaching career that passes through the University of Strasbourg, before the Sorbonne and the Collège de France.[3] |
| 1921 | Publishes La Dialectique du monde sensible.[1] [2] |
| 1932–1934 | Professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne.[1] [3] |
| 1933 | Publishes La Conscience de soi.[1] [2] |
| 1934 | Publishes La Présence totale.[1] |
| 1940 | Publishes Le Mal et la souffrance.[1] |
| 1941 | Appointed inspector-general of national education and elected to the Collège de France, where he teaches from 1941 to 1951 (a chair opened with the inaugural lecture L'existence et la valeur).[1] [2] |
| 1945 | Publishes Du temps et de l'éternité, volume III of the tetralogy La dialectique de l'éternel présent (whose central volume, De l'Acte, is considered his principal work).[2] |
| 1947 | Publishes Introduction à l'ontologie; elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.[1] [2] |
| 1 September 1951 | Dies in the Lot-et-Garonne (Britannica records Saint-Martin-de-Villeréal as the place of death; French sources give neighboring Parranquet).[1] |
How he read him
Reception, not philosophy: each entry records how Olavo de Carvalho characterised this philosopher, attributed and dated to the 2002 course. The project does not adjudicate who is right. The recordings are machine-transcribed and unchecked against audio, so everything here is paraphrase and nothing is quoted.
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The finding the mention-count missed. Asked about method, he names the twentieth-century philosophy that counts: Lavelle first, then Husserl, then a trio. The transcription yields Zubiri and Lonergan and reduces the third to a single letter; this project's keyword notes propose Voegelin, which is a proposal and not a reading. The rest, he says, is decoration. This is the earliest located statement of the position the Curso Online de Filosofia would later rest on.
Curso História Essencial da Filosofia, session 04 — Aristotle — 2002 ?
Reception in the COF
Present in 93 of the 589 transcription files of the Curso Online de Filosofia; 30 lectures engage him substantially (5 or more mentions). The most engaged lectures:
This section documents what Olavo said and when — never what the philosopher "really" meant. Characterizations are Olavo’s, tied to a lecture by number and date.
| Lecture (aula) | Date | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| 203 | 2013-05-11 | 42 |
| 190 | 2013-02-02 | 41 |
| 187 | 2013-01-12 | 36 |
| 193 | 2013-02-23 | 36 |
| 192 | 2013-02-16 | 33 |
| 189 | 2013-01-26 | 30 |
| 191 | 2013-02-09 | 29 |
| 205 | 2013-05-18 | 25 |
| 186 | 2013-01-05 | 24 |
| 195 | 2013-03-09 | 23 |
| 10 | 2009-06-13 | 20 |
| 13 | 2009-07-04 | 17 |
| 201 | 2013-04-20 | 16 |
| 204 | 2013-05-18 | 16 |
| 196 | 2013-03-16 | 15 |
A dash in the date column means the transcription file carries no verified date — an undated file, not an undated lecture. Counts are accent-insensitive, word-boundary matches over the public community transcription corpus.[4] [5]
References
- Louis Lavelle — Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Louis Lavelle (1883-1951) — digitized works — Les Classiques des sciences sociales (UQAM) — francophone academic digital library
- LOUIS LAVELLE (1883-1951) — Encyclopædia Universalis (free preview carries the biographical data)
- COF — community transcriptions of the Curso Online de Filosofia (585 lectures) — Community transcription repository (upstream declares CC0 for the transcription work; the lectures remain the estate's)
- COF em Áudio — lecture audio collection — Internet Archive (community upload)