ABSTRACT
Jean Wahl can be considered a historian, a poet, and also a philosopher. His main interests run from Plato and Aristotle to Søren Kierkegaard, Gabriel Marcel (18891973), and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80). His research interests also include figures such as William James (1842-1910), Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), and his own mentor Henry Bergson (1859-1941). Jules Lequier (1814-62), Chaim Perelman (1912-84), and William Sheldon (1898-1977) appear in his repertoire as well. Historically speaking, Jean Wahl is acknowledged as an authority on authors such as Kierkegaard, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831), and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). He is also known as a serious scholar on literary figures such as Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), Nicholas Berdyaev (1874-1948), Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), Franz Kafka (1883-1924), and Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976), to mention just a few.
