Paul Petit (writer)

Paul Petit (2 May 1893 – 24 August 1944) was a French writer, sociologist, diplomat and French Resistance worker.

Paul Petit

Arrested on 7 February 1942, Paul Petit was deported to the prison Saarbrucken 9 July 1942. Sentenced to death on 16 October 1943, by 2 e Senate Volksgerichtshof, along with his co-accused Martin Marietta and Raymond Burgard, he was beheaded at the Cologne prison (Germany) on 24 August 1944.

Translations of Kierkegaard

Petit produced French translations of the work of two works of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard: the Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (French: Post-scriptum aux Miettes philosophiques), published in 1941; and Philosophical Fragments (French: Les mietes philosophiques), published posthumously in 1947.[1]

References

Stewart, Jon (2007). "France: Kierkegaard as a Forerunner of Existentialism and Poststructuralism". In Stewart, Jon (ed.). Kierkegaard's International Reception I: Northern and Western Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate. p. 429. ISBN 9780754664963.

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[1] Stewart, Jon (2007). "France: Kierkegaard as a Forerunner of Existentialism and Poststructuralism". In Stewart, Jon (ed.). Kierkegaard's International Reception I: Northern and Western Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate. p. 429. ISBN 9780754664963.