Léon Dumont

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Léon Dumont (5 February 1837 – 17 January 1877) was a French psychologist[1] and philosopher.[2] He influenced William James[3], Friedrich Nietzsche,[4] and is perhaps best known for his treatise on the causes of laughter (Des causes du rire).

Career overview

Dumont was born in Valenciennes. He did his secondary studies at the college of his home town, where he met the writer of German origin Alexander Büchner who was a professor there. Büchner introduced him to German culture; they will remain closely linked and will jointly publish a work on Jean Paul.

Dumont was at first interested in aesthetics, before turning to philosophy proper. From 1872, he published regularly in the Revue scientifique studies on the great philosophical works published in England and Germany. He made known in France authors like Eduard von Hartmann (Philosophy of the Unconscious) and George Henry Lewes.

He died in Valenciennes.

See also

Major publications

  • Des causes du rire (1862)
  • Jean Paul et sa poétique (1862)
  • Le Sentiment du gracieux (1863)
  • Antoine Watteau (1866)
  • Théorie de l'évolution en Allemagne (1873)
  • Théorie Scientifique de la Sensibilité (1875)
  • De l'habitude (1876)
  • La théorie de la sensibilité (1876)
    • Vergnügen und Schmerz : zur Lehre von den Gefühlen (Théorie scientifique de la sensibilité, dt.) Autoris. Ausg. Leipzig : Brockhaus, 1876 (Internationale Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek ; 22)

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