Wilfrid Desan
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Wilfrid Desan was born in Belgium and emigrated to the United States in 1948 to attend Harvard University. He received his doctorate in 1951. In 1952, he gained a lectureship at the philosophy department of Kenyon College. In 1957, he joined Georgetown University where he remained for the rest of his academic career and where he enjoyed a good reputation as teacher and a clear writer. He also had appointments as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Villanova University and Visiting Professor at George Mason University. He developed his own noetic philosophy in his three-volume work The Planetary Man, a prescient, pioneering vision of globalisation unifying the world's peoples.
Books
The Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre
Summarization and simplification of Sartre's "Critique de la Raison Dialectique" in which the Nobel Prize winner contends that one can believe in both Marxism and Existentialism at the same time.
The tragic finale
TREATS OF TRANSCENDENTAL EGO WHICH IS A MODERN INTUITION, FIRST CLEARLY SCHEMATIZED IN KANT. THIS IS BOOK IS BETTER DESCRIBED AS AN EXISTENTIAL ESSAY OF THE NOTION OF EGO, AND AN INQUIRY INTO WHAT ELEMENTS REMAIN, WHEN CONCEPT EGO IS SEEN AS ILLUSORY.