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Philosophy Houses Michel Haar Archive

The Albert Sloman Library at the University of Essex now houses a Michel Haar Archive, which contains all the unpublished work and documents bequeathed by the philosopher to Professor Beatrice Han-Pile after his death. These have been catalogued and sorted out in boxes.

At the time of his death, Michel Haar (1937-2003) was Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris-1). Born in France, he studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and at the Sorbonne. He was an internationally renowned scholar, whose contributions to philosophy (and to phenomenology in particular) include L'oeuvre d'art: essai sur l'ontologie des oeuvres (1989),The Song of the Earth (1993), Heidegger and the Essence of Man (1993), La fracture de l'histoire: douze essais sur Heidegger (1994), Nietzsche and Metaphysics (1996), Par delà le nihilisme: nouveaux essais sur Nietzsche (1998), La philosophie française entre Phénoménologie et métaphysique (1999). For a complete bibliography, click here.