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Miklós Vető (born 1936, Budapest) is a Hungarian-born French philosopher. A historian of German Idealism, especially Schelling, he lives in Paris. As an author, he has been largely collected by libraries.
Biography
Professor Vető studied law at the University of Szeged. Because of his participation in the Revolution of 1956 he had to flee Hungary. As a refugee he was admitted to France in 1957. He studied philosophy first at the Sorbonne and then Oxford. He taught at Marquette and Yale Universities in the United States, the University of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast and Rennes and Poitiers Universities in France. He was made Professor Emeritus in 2005.
Vető is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Catholic Academy of France and the Academy of Messina. He was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest and the University of Szeged. He is Honorary Professor at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne and an officer of the National Order of the Ivory Coast.
Philosophy
Vető's philosophy is coordinated along three interrelated foci: 1. The History of Philosophy, particularly German Idealism (Kant, Hegel, Schelling). This is the central thread of his philosophical research. 2. The Philosophy of Religion, understood as the philosophical investigation of the intelligibility of Christian spirituality and theology. 3. A Constructive Metaphysics, concerned with the "enlargement" of philosophical reflection by intercourse with themes drawn from religion, art and ordinary experience.
Foci 1 and 2 have involved parallel developments through his career, whereas focus 3 has appeared central in publications since 2002.
Publications
LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE RELIGIEUSE DE SIMONE WEIL, Paris, 1971 ; 3. ed. Paris, 2014. English translation : THE RELIGIOUS METAPHYSICS OF SIMONE WEIL, Albany, 1994. Translations in Italian, Japanese and Hungarian.
F.W.J. SCHELLING : STUTTGARTER PRIVATVORLESUNGEN. Critical edition, Turin, 1973, 2. edition Paris, 2009.
LE FONDEMENT SELON SCHELLING, Paris, 1977, 2. ed. Paris, 2002.
LA PENSÉE DE JONATHAN EDWARDS, Paris, 1987, 2. ed. Paris, 2007. English translation : THE THOUGHT OF JONATHAN EDWARDS, EUGENE (OREGON) (IN PRINT)
ÉTUDES SUR L’IDÉALISME ALLEMAND, Paris, 1998.
DE KANT À SCHELLING. LES DEUX VOIES DE L’IDÉALISME ALLEMAND I-II. Krisis, Grenoble, 1998–2000 (German translation in preparation).
LE MAL. ESSAIS ET ÉTUDES, Paris, 2000.
FICHTE. DE L’ACTION À L’IMAGE, Paris, 2001.
LA NAISSANCE DE LA VOLONTÉ, Paris, 2002, also a Brazilian translation
PHILOSOPHIE ET RELIGION. Paris, 2006.Translation in Hungarian.
NOUVELLES ÉTUDES SUR L’IDÉALISME ALLEMAND. Paris, 2009.
L’ÉLARGISSEMENT DE LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE, Paris, 2012, English translation: THE EXPANSION OF METAPHYSICS. Eugene (Oregon), (in preparation).
EXPLORATIONS MÉTAPHYSIQUES, Paris, 2012.
GABRIEL MARCEL, Paris, 2014.
DE WHITEHEAD A MARION. ECLATS DE PHILOSOPHIE CONTEMPORAINE, Paris, 2015.
PIERRE DE BÉRULLE. LES THÈMES MAJEURS DE SA PENSÉE. PARIS, 2016.
LA VOLONTÉ SELON FÉNELON, Paris (in print).
Also over 400 other publications: articles, prefaces, book reviews.